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Moffat Genealogies: 
Descent from Rev. 
John Moffat of Ulster 
County New York 



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PRIVATELY PRINTED 
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JOHN LITTLE MOFFAT, M. D. 

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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Foreword 1 1 

Map 12 

The locus in quo 13 

The Moffats of Earlier Days 16 

Rev. John Moffat 26 

Picture of Stonefield, in 1905 46 

Rev. John Little 47 

The Family During the Revolution 54 

The Blagg's Clove Moffats 60 

Notes Concerning Some of the Descendants: 

John Little Moffat 63 

William Moffat 65 

Samuel Moffat 65 

Margaret Moffat Wright 66 

Mary Moffat Carpenter 68 

Frances Moffat Pierson 69 

Elizabeth Moffat Roosa 72 

Catherine Moffat Howe 72 

Anthony Yelverton Moffat 73 

John Little Moffat, Jr 76 

John Carpenter, M. D 76 

John Shaw Moffat 78 

William Shaw Moffat 78 

Elizabeth Pierson Otis 79 

Rev. John Moffat Howe 79 

Reuben Curtis Moffat, M. D 82 

William B. Moffat, M. D 83 

Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter 83 

Genealogical Table of Descent 85 

Index of Names 145 



FOREWORD. 



THE pages that follow are the outgrowth of the writer's 
wish that all who are interested may have, in readily 
accessible form, the information that he has gathered 
concerning Rev. John Moffat and his descendants. 

Errors in a work of this kind are inevitable, and their 
correction will be gladly welcomed. And should anyone to whom 
these pages may come have information, from family records or 
otherwise, which should have been included in this edition but 
was not, it is sincerely hoped that such information will be com- 
municated to the writer to the end that a larger knowledge of 
those who have gone before may be preserved for those who are 
to come hereafter. 

63 Wali. Street, New York, 

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PART I. 

The locus in quo. 

THE first twelve counties of the Province of New York 
were established in 1683 and included the counties of 
Ulster and Orange ; but from the earliest period of Eng- 
lish rule until shortly after the Revolution, civil divisions of 
outlying territory throughout the province were known as "pre- 
cincts." The precinct was not the forerunner of the "town," 
for the town, as such, was recognized as a unit of government 
in New York, in the "Duke's Laws," as early as 1665. The 
precinct comprised a number of scattered settlements with inter- 
vening territory, which were originally identified with some 
comparatively nearby town or village for the purposes of assess- 
ment and local government; and the outlying settlements might 
thus, in a sense, be said to be within the precincts of the town 
or village to which they were respectively attached. 

At first of a sparse and widely scattered population, the area 
of the precinct was large and its boundaries were not clearly 
defined ; but as population increased and the need of closer affilia- 
tion for the purposes of government became more pressing, the 
earlier precincts would be subdivided into smaller ones, with 
boundaries more clearly defined, and these in turn would be 
further subdivided and new precincts created from them as need 
might from time to time arise. The distinction, however, between 
the town, to which the precinct was attached, and the town itself 
came in later years to be a distinction more of name than of 
substance; and in 1788 the precinct, as such, passed from the 
statute books. 

The Precinct of the Highlands was established in 1743 and 
included all that part of Ulster County which lay along the 
Hudson River between the mouth of Murderer's Creek' (see 



iprom its junction with Cromeline Creek east to the Hudson, wrote the late 
E. M. Ruttenber in 1881, in his History of Orange County (page 69), the OtterktU 
loses its name and is called Murderer's Creek — softened in more recent years by 
the poet Willis to Moodna Creek. It was known as the "Murderer's Creek," as 
early as 1656. Historians differ as to why it was so called, some regarding it 
as pointing to an early Indian massacre, others being equally certain that it came 
from its earlier Dutch name of Martelaer's Rack. 

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14 Early Divisions of 



map) and New Paltz, and extended westerly to the precincts 
of Wallkill and Shawangunk. Its southerly boundary was the 
dividing line between the counties, as then constituted, of Ulster 
and Orange, being approximately the same line as is shown on 
the map as the southern boundary of the present town of New 
Windsor and its extension westerly. 

In 1762, the precinct of the Highlands was divided into the 
Precinct of Nezv Burgh and the Precinct of New Windsor, the 
dividing line commencing at the mouth of Quassaick Creek (see 
map) and continuing westerly along substantially the same line 
as now separates the towns of Newburgh and New Windsor, and 
continuing on through what is now the town of Montgomery to 
the precinct of Wallkill. 

The Precinct of Wallkill was divided, in 1772, into two parts, 
the westerly part retaining the name of Wallkill and the easterly 
being called the Precinct of Hanover. But the inhabitants of 
the easterly part were filled with loyalty to the patriot cause, 
and wishing to evidence their detestation of things British as 
well as their appreciation of the heroic services of General Rich- 
ard Montgomery, caused the name of their precinct to be changed, 
in 1782, from the Precinct of Hanover to the Precinct of Mont- 
gomery; and so it remained until 1788 when the word "precinct" 
was abandoned, and the precincts already mentioned were erected 
as tozuns under the names, respectively, of Newburgh, New 
Windsor, Montgomery and Wallkill. All four lay within the 
limits of Ulster County, as then constituted, and continued so 
until 1798 when, by act passed on April 5th of that year, they 
were taken from Ulster and annexed to the county of Orange. 

The town of Crazvford was created out of the town of 
Montgomery in 1823 ; and the town of Hamptonburgh was 
created in 1830 from parts of Goshen, Blooming Grove, New 
Windsor, Montgomery and Wallkill. 

Within the original limits of Orange County, the Precinct 
of Goshen included, up to 1764, all that territory shown on the 
map as the present towns of Highland, Cornwall, Blooming 



Ulster and Orange Counties. 15 

Grove and Goshen, as well as a part of Hamptonburgh, and 
other territory to the southward. An act of the provincial 
assembly, passed October 20, 1764, divided the precinct by a 
straight line running- approximately north and south from a point 
on the southerly boundary of what then was a part of the precinct 
of New Windsor but now lies within the limits of the town of 
Hamptonburgh, to the southerly bound of the precinct, passing 
part of the way along the same line as now divides the towns 
of Goshen and Blooming Grove (see map). All territory to the 
eastward of such line was called the Precinct of New Cornwall 
and all to the westward continued to be known as the Precinct 
of Goshen. 

In 1779, the tozvn of Blooming Grove was formed out of 
the Precinct of New Cornwall, substantially as shown on the 
map, and in 1788 the title of the remaining part of the Precinct 
of New Cornwall was changed to the town of New Cornwall. 
In 1797 the name was shortened to Cornwall. 

The town of Highland, as shown on the map, was not 
erected until 1872 ; and care should be taken not to confuse it 
with the old Precinct of the Highlands which, as above shown, 
lay wholly to the northward of Murderer's Creek. 

This brief historical review may serve to make clear the 
particular localities referred to in contemporary references of 
the earlier and middle parts of the i8th century. 



PART II. 



The Moffats of Earlier Days. 

THE late Rev. James C. Moffat, of the Princeton Theological 
Seminary, wrote in a personal letter, in 1877: 

"Our name is derived from a locality in Annandale in 
the south of Scotland. At the head of Annandale, and the foot 
of the Hartfell mountain, spreads a broad plain in which two 
small rivers meet and form the Annan. That plain was, in 
the language of the ancient Celtic inhabitants, called Mor fad, 
or perhaps rather Mahar fad, signifying the long plain. When 
Saxon invaders took possession of that part of the country and 
later when the Normans became principal owners there, the 
meaning of the Celtic names disappeared from the common 
language, and their pronunication underwent a change having 
no regard to the sense. Mahar fad, in the mouths of those who 
did not know its meaning, was softened down to Moifat; and 
other things connected with the place received names accordingly. 
One of the little rivers which meet in its bosom was called 
'Moffat Water' ; the valley through which it flows to join its 
confluent became 'Moffat Dale' ; the town which rose on the 
northern edge of the plain was the town of 'Moffat' ; and the 
mineral springs in the neighborhood are the 'Moffat Wells.' 

"In like manner, as in early Saxon times, surnames either did 
not exist or were given in reference to some mark whereby a man 
could be distinguished ; and a very obvious mark was the place 
of his residence. Thus, John, of Moffat, or William, of Moffat, 
became designations of Johns or Williams residing there. 

"In the days of the National Covenant there was a goodly 
number of our name among the dales of the south, eastward from 
Dumfries. Several of them are mentioned in Wodrow's history 
among the sufferers in the persecution ; and in a history of the 
Covenanters, or Traditions of the Covenanters, by a Mr. Simpson 
of Sanquhar there are mentioned some adventures of a William 
Moffat of Hartfell. 

"Our forefathers, if not distinguished by rank, were many 

of them godly men." 

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The Moffats of Earlier Days. i7 



Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, wrote of the 
Moffats in his "Encyclopedia of Heraldry," 3rd Edition, published 
in 1844: 

"A very ancient Border family, influential and powerful so far back 
as the time of Wallace, and conspicuous for the deadly feud which existed 
between them and the Johnstones. So early as 1268 Nicholas de Moffat 
was Bishop of Glasgow, and the armorial bearings of ^the different branches 
seem to indicate some connection with the church." 

An English publication, entitled "A Short History of the 
Moffats of that Ilk,"— one of the border families of Scotland of 
the middle ages,— has recently come from the press in the Island 
of Jersey, written by Robert Maxwell Moffat M. D. ;^ and we 
draw from its pages a somewhat interesting statement of the 
conditions and mode of living of our medieval ancestors. The 
correctness of the statement will be assumed. 

"The system of clanship," the author writes, "prevailed 
among the Borderers, much as it did among the Highlanders. 
The chief landowners were given baronial rights, — were in fact 
barons,— but not necessarily Lords of Parliament, though they 
sat in the Estates of the Realm in Parliament. This included 
the services of the freemen on their lands, whose disputes and 
quarrels they settled and whom they protected from enemies. 
* * * Life was of the roughest description, and even Princes 
in those days fared less sumptuously than the middle classes of 
the twentieth century. 

"All the borderers were mounted men, and Bruce's army was 
nearly all cavalry, containing a Knight or Esquire to every five 
troopers. Froissart in 1323 describes their life: 'The bold and 
'hardy troopers armed after the inanner of their country, and 
'mounted on little hackneys that are never tied up or dressed 
'but turned immediately after the day's march to pasture on 
'the heath or in the fields, brought no carts and carried no bread. 
'They can live on flesh half sodden, without bread, and drink 
'the river water without wine. They dress the flesh of the 
'cattle in their skins after they have flayed them. Under the 
'flaps of his saddle every man carries a broad piece of metal 
'behind him with a little bag of oatmeal. When they have 



^Jersey: LabEy & BlampiEd, Printers and Bookbinders, The Beresford Library, 
1908. 



i8 The Moffats of Earlier Days. 

'eaten too much of the sodden flesh, they set this plate over the 
'fire, knead the meal with water and make a ihin cake of it, 
'which they bake on the heated plate to warm their bodies.' 

"From the 12th to the close of the i6th century, the family 
[of Moffat] appears to have flourished as minor barons and 
freeholders, — tenants in capitc, — possessing a fair share of power 
and influence, and leading the usual life of such Border families. 
* * * They served Wallace until his fall, then transferred 
their allegiance to Bruce, whose fortunes they followed till the 
culminating victory of Bannockburn seated him securely on the 
throne, and finally established the independence of Scotland. * * * 
"When the Johnstones extended their possessions to upper 
Annandale about the beginning of the 15th century, the Moffats 
looked upon them as interlopers and resented their growing 
influence, and thus arose a keen struggle for local power and 
the feud between the two clans which continued through several 
generations and ended only when the Moffat clan became 
'broken' and ultimately dispersed. 3 How or when the Moffats 
lost their Chief it is not easy to say; but about 1560 they had 
only 'Principals' or heads of branches. This of course weakened 
the clan, as it necessarily led to divided councils and want of 
concerted action. '" * * 

"The final overthrow of the Moffats appears to have been 
brought about by the Johnstones taking advantage of an assem- 
bling together of the Moffats in a large building wherein they 
had met for council or prayer. The Johnstones set fire to the 
building and, on the Moffats attempting to escape from the 
flames, attacked and killed many of their 'principals.' This dis- 
aster deprived the clan of its leaders and ultimately led to its 
breaking up. 

"At this time, too, many of the Moffats were undergoing 
a condition of affairs common enough to every border family 
in turn, viz. : outlawry; and as the killing of outlaws was not 
murder, the Johnstones do not appear to have been called upon 
to answer for their act, and the Moffats were apparently then 
too weak to avenge it privately. There had been no recognized 



'A "broken" clan is one which has no recognized chief, — no one to whom the 
obedience and sworn allegiance of every other member is due. 



The Moffats of Earlier Days. i9 



chief since about 1560, and it was probably some time after 
that that this event took place. Previously the chieftainship 
was vested in the family of Moffat of Grantoun, i. e. of that 
Ilk. From 1569 the Moffats of Knock appear to have been the 
most influential, till 1608. After this time some of the surviving 
branches settled in Glencairne, Lauderdale, and other parts, while 
some went to England and Ireland, and some to the Continent." 

From which branch of the Border family Rev. John Moffat 
was descended, we have no knowledge and but little on which 
to base conjecture. 

On October 3rd. 1710, a Samuel Moffat was admitted to 
membership in the Presbyterian church at Woodbridge, New 
Jersey ;4 but the early records of that church, unfortunately, are 
no longer extant. "Tombstone Inscriptions from the church- 
yards at Woodhridgc, Piscataqua and Perth Amhoy!' collated 
many years ago by the late William A. Whitehead and preserved 
in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society at Newark, 
New Jersey, contains the following records of deaths from the 
Woodbridge churchyard : 

1734 June 5 : Ruth, wife of Samuel Moffat and daughter 
of John and Elizabeth Burns. 

1746 July 21 : Margaret, wife of William Moffat. 

1748 No. 3 : William Moffat 

The family recordss of Samuel Moffat who settled in 1752 
at Blagg's Clove in Ulster County, New York, (see map), buy- 
ing land there from Hugh Gregg, show that on June 5, 1735, 
he (Samuel Moffat) was married at Woodbridge, New Jersey, 
to Anne Gregg; and the gravestones still preserved in the old 
Bethlehem churchyard in Orange County, New York, record 
the birth of Samuel Moffat at Ballyleag {sic) in county 
Antrim, Ireland, on July 18, 1704, (old style), and his death 



^D alley: History of Woodbridge, New Jersey, page 168. 

»For the family records and for much of the information concerning the so- 
called Blagg's Clove Moffats, I am indebted to Rev. T. Clemence Moffatt, of 
Clyde, Kansas, one of the descendants of that branch. 



20 The Moffats of Earlier Days. 



at Blagg's Clove on May 17, 1787, and the birth of Anne Gregg 
in county Fermanaugh, Ireland, on June 12, 1716 (old style), 
and her death at Blagg's Clove on December 19. 1794- 

We know from his will that Samuel Moffat of Blagg's Clove 
had a sister Mary, the wife of James Barkley,^ and that James 
Barkley had come over with the so-called Clinton party on the 
"George and Anne" in 1729 and settled at Little Britain in Ulster 
County, New York. The family records of the Blagg's Clove 
■Mofifa'ts show that Samuel, the head of that line, had a brother 
Thomas Moffat, who was the recorder of deeds or county clerk 
at Goshen when the Blagg's Clove property was bought by 
Samuel Moffat in 1752; and tradition in both branches of the 
family has been that Samuel and Rev. John were either brothers 
or cousins. The writer inclines to the view that they were 
brothers, resting such belief in part upon the inference to be 
drawn from the similarity and order of names of children born 
in the two families, — a circumstance not wholly devoid of signi- 
ficance in those days,— and in part upon the belief that Rev. 
John Moffat was a resident of Woodbridge when he entered the 
College of New Jersey in 1747 or 1748. 

In the list of Marriage Bonds from 1665 to 1800, published 
in vol. XXII of the New Jersey Archives, First Series, at page 
265, is mentioned the bond given November 8, 1750, upon the 
marriage of Thomas Mofifat of Woodbridge, Middlesex County, 
and Margaret Gaston of Raritan, Somerset County, — in all 
probability the county clerk at Goshen and brother of Samuel 
Mofifat then of Woodbridge but two years later of Blagg's Clove. 
On December 10, 1750, — according to the family records of the 
^vriter, — Rev. John Moffat married Margaret Little of Little 
Britain, Ulster County, and the next year was installed as pastor 
of the comparatively nearby Goodwill church (see map.) 

The History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New 
Jersey, by James P. Snell,? recites at page 781 that in 1752 and 
1753 a William Moffat was an inhabitant of Hillsborough Town- 
ship, Somerest County; and in the New York Mercury of 
Saturday September 25, 1758, is an advertisement of the sale 



sBarclay GenEalogiSS by R. Burnham Moffat, New York, 1904- 
'Everts & Peck, publishers, Philadelphia, 1881. 



The Moffats of Earlier Days. 21 

of "A Plantation in the Township of Baskenridge, county of 
"Somerset and Province of East New Jersey, now in possession 
"of William Moffat, containing 200 acres of land, 50 of which 
"are cleared, 16 acres of meadow land" etc. And there are records 
of service in the Revolutionary War of William Moffat and 
Samuel Moffat, both of Somerset county (which adjoins Mid- 
dlesex county on the west for almost its entire length), while 
among the marriage records on file in the clerk's office of 
Middlesex county appears the marriage on March 4, 1798, of 
Samuel Moft'at and Sarah Lewis, both of Woodbridge. Other 
records show that William Moffat or his descendants were 
living continuously in Somerset county down to i860, and some 
are still living at Fords, near Perth Amboy, in Middlesex 
County. 

From the names, dates and circumstances thus narrated, 
and from the further circumstances noted below, the following 
hypothesis may not unreasonably, as it seems to the writer, be 
indulged in : 

Samuel Moffat, who joined the Woodbridge church in 1710, 
came to this country late in life and was the founder of our 
family in America. He had two sons, William and Samuel, both 
born on the other side, probably in Ayrshire, Scotland. The 
son William came to America, as did one or more of William's 
children, while the other son, Samuel, remained in Ballylig, 
Racavan Parish, county Antrim, where he married, had a family 
and died. The will of Samuel Moffat, the son, is on file in the 
Record Office, Dublin, bears date March 30, 1765, and was 
admitted to probate on May 2, 1765. From it we learn that 
the testator had married Martha McCully, and that his children's 
names were William, Thomas, John, Margaret and Mary. 
Correspondence had during the past few years with a descendant 
of Samuel Moffat of Ballylig, (still resident in that locality), by 
Mr. George West Maffet of Lawrence, Kansas, — the indefatig- 
able editor and historian of "The Clan Moffat in America," — 
reveals that the story or tradition existing today in the Ballylig 
family is consistent, in the main, with that in ours, namely, that 
Samuel Moffat, the forbear of the branch in Ireland, was born 
in or about Ayrshire, Scotland, and fought in the battle of 



22 The Moffats of Earlier Days. 



Bothwell Bridge, June 22, 1679, at which the forces of Charles 
II, under Monmouth, completely routed and dispersed the 
Covenanters ; and that Samuel fled after the battle to the McCullys 
in Ballylig, Ireland, who had gone there not long before him, and 
subsequently married Martha McCully, who had also been bom 
in Ayrshire. This tradition, it may be observed, confuses Samuel, 
the father, with Samuel, the son. The will of Samuel Moffat, 
bearing date March 30, 1765, in which the wife Martha McCully 
was mentioned, was executed eighty-six years after the battle of 
Bothwell Bridge; and it is not to be imagined that the Samuel 
Moffat who was old enough to bear arms in 1679 was still alive 
in 1765. The tradition, as not infrequently happens, has simply 
skipped or ignored one generation where father and son bore 
the same name. 

Moffatdale lies in the northernmost part of Dumfriesshire, 
not far from the southerly line of Lanarkshire; and Ayrshire 
adjoins Dumfriesshire on the west. The battle of Bothwell 
Bridge was fought in Lanarkshire, and is thus described by 
Hume :^ 

"They [the covenanters] had taken post near Bothwell 
Castle, between Hamilton and Glasgow, where there was no 
access to them but over a bridge, which a small body was able 
to defend against the King's forces. They showed judgment in 
the choice of their post, but discovered neither judgment nor 
valor in any other step of their conduct. No nobility and few 
gentry had joined them ; the clergy were in reality the generals ; 
and the whole army never exceeded eight thousand men. Mon- 
mouth attacked the bridge ; and the body of rebels who defended 
it maintained their post as long as their ammunition lasted. 
When they sent for more they received orders to quit their 
ground and to retire backwards. This imprudent measure 
occasioned an immediate defeat to the Covenanters. Monmouth 
passed the bridge without opposition, and drew up his forces 
opposite to the enemy. His cannon alone put them to rout. 
About seven hundred fell in the pursuit; for, properly speaking, 
there was no action. Twelve hundred were taken prisoners, and 



^Harper's Edition of 1850, vol. VI, page 211. 



The Moffats of Earlier Days. 23 



were treated by Monmouth with a humanity which they had 
never experienced in their own countrymen. Such of them as 
would promise to live peaceably were dismissed. About three 
hundred, who were so obstinate as to refuse this easy condition, 
were shipped for Barbadoes, but unfortunately perished on the 
voyage. Two of their clergy were hanged." 

The Samuel Moffat who fought at Bothwell Bridge and 
fled thence to Ireland was, it seems not improbable to the writer, 
the same Samuel Moffat who, thirty-one years later, — in 17 10, — 
joined the Presbyterian church at Woodbridge, New Jersey. In 
the Publications of the Scotch Record Society, — Part XXIV, p. 
70, — is found mention, among the records of wills admitted to 
probate in the ofifice of the Commissariat of Lanark, of the wills 
of William Moffat, of Normangill, in the parish of Crawford- 
Lindsay, Lanark, admitted July 30, 1679, hardly more than a 
month after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, and of John Moffat 
of Midlock, in the same parish, admitted June 28, 1685. Could 
the William Moffat of Normangill here mentioned have been the 
father of that Samuel Moffat who came to East New Jersey 
some thirty years later? 

It is possible, and perhaps probable, that William Moffat, 
the son, came out to New Jersey at an earlier date than did his 
father, Samuel Moffat. Had they come out together, they would 
doubtless have been admitted at the same time to membership in 
the church at Woodbridge, and, the record of that fact would 
undoubtedly have been noted by Air. Dalley in his History of 
Woodbridge, already referred to. Nor is it likely that after the 
father had fled with his two sons from their home in Scotland, 
and taken up their abode in Ballylig, Ireland, — where Samuel 
Moffat subsequently of Blagg's Clove w^as born in 1704, — the son, 
rather than the father, should be the first to migrate to America 
and, when settled there, should send for the father to join him. Of 
course it is mere conjecture as to when William Moffat, the son, 
came to Woodbridge, and we know definitely nothing except that, 
as recorded on the gravestones at Woodbridge, he died there 
November 3, 1748. and that his wife Margaret had died there 
July 21, 1746. 



24 The Moffats of Earlier Days. 



From the fragmentary bits of evidence thus gathered to- 
gether, it seems probable to the writer that WiUiam Moffat was 
the father of five children, namely, Samuel, Thomas, William, 
Mary and John, although there is nothing to assure us of the 
order of their births. Samuel was probably the oldest and John, 
being very much younger, was probably the youngest. Concern- 
ing these children, we note the following: 

1. Samuel Moffat, as we know from his tombstone, was born 

at Ballylig, Ireland, in 1704; was married at Woodbridge, 
New Jersey, on June 5, 1735, to Anne Gregg, also born 
in Ireland ; and moved to Blagg's Clove in Ulster County, 
New York, in 1752. A tradition has existed among his 
descendants, so the writer has been informed by Rev. T. 
Clemence Moffatt of Clyde. Kansas, that Samuel Moffat 
of Blagg's Clove was twice married ; and such tradition 
finds some support in the tombstone inscription at Wood- 
bridge of the death on June 5, 1734, — just one year to 
the day before the marriage to Anne Gregg, — of Ruth, 
wife of Samuel Moffat and daughter of John and Eliza- 
beth Burns. The names of the sons of Samuel Moffat 
of Blagg's Clove, — as we have called him for purposes of 
identification, — were, in the order of their birth : William, 
Thomas, Samuel, John and Isaac; and among the 
daughters were Margaret and Mary. 

2. Thomas Moffat married Margaret Gaston in 1750, and 

was in 1752 at all events, if not before, the clerk of 
Orange County, New York, and lived at Goshen. 
Whether or not he had children, the writer is without 
information. 

3. William Moffat was, in 1752 and 1753, an inhabitant of 

Somerset County, New Jersey, and a part of his prop- 
erty there was sold in 1758. He seems to have had 
sons, Samuel and William, both of whom served in the 
Revolutionary War. 



The Mofifats of Earlier Days. 25 



4. Mary Moffat married James Barkley of Ulster County, 

subsequently, in all probability, to 1750, when her brother 
John married Margaret Little and moved to Little 
Britain, and subsequently even to 1752 when her brother 
Samuel purchased lands at Blagg's Clove. Her sons 
were named Samuel, John, James (probably named for 
the father), William and Thomas; and her daughters 
were iMary and Margaret.^ 

5. John Moffat, graduated at the College of New Jersey 

in 1749, married Margaret Little of Ulster County, New 
York, in 1750, and was installed as pastor of the Good- 
will church in Ulster County in 1751. His sons were 
John Little (named undoubtedly for the maternal grand- 
father), then William and Samuel; and among the 
daughters were Margaret and Mary. 

That Rev. John Moffat was of this family is further borne 
out in some degree by the testimony of Rev. John Moffat Howe, 
his grandson, who wrote many years ago not as an hypothesis, 
but as a fact, that the family originally located near Woodbridge, 
New Jersey. 9 

The Moffats now living about Washingtonville and Goshen, 
in Orange County, New York, are mainly descended from 
Samuel Moffat, of Blagg's Clove. None are descended from Rev. 
John Moffat. The confusion in identification is increased some- 
what by the fact that, shortly before the Revolutionary War, a 
Samuel Moffat, of a wholly distinct family, came from county 
Tyrone, Ireland, settled in Goshen and raised a numerous family 
there. Some of his descendants migrated, but many live in that 
locality today. 



"Barclay Genealogies, supra; page 286. 

^Filial Tribute to the Memory of Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D.. Privately 
printed, 1889. 



PART III. 



Rev. John Moffat. 

A TRADITION exists among some of the descendants of 
Rev. John Moffat that he was born in the north of 
Ireland, — of Scotch ancestry, — and came to this country 
with the so-called "Clinton party" in 1729; but the evidence 
collated in an earlier part of this book, together with what follows, 
seem to the writer completely to refute such tradition. "Stone- 
field," Rev. John Moffat's home in later years, adjoined the 
home of the Clintons at Little Britain, and more or less intimacy 
seems to have existed between the two families ; and it is possible 
that the tradition of his coming to America with the Clinton party 
was the outgrowth of those two circumstances. No other source 
to which the tradition may be traced has come to the writer's 
notice. 

The Clinton party, so-called, composed largely of families 
from county Longford, Ireland, sailed from Dublin for Phil- 
adelphia, on the "George and Anne," on May 20th, 1729; but 
the hardships of the voyage,— ninety-six of the party died 
during the passage, — and its unexpected length of 139 days from 
Dublin, induced the party or what was left of it to disembark 
at Cape Cod, in the colony of Massachusetts, and there the 
survivors remained until the spring of 1731. They then moved 
into what at that time was a part of Ulster County in the Province 
of New York, purchasing lands at Little Britain, and became 
permanent settlers there. Charles Clinton, the ancestor of the 
New York Clintons, bought 215 acres of land at Little Britain 
on August 2, 1730, but did not move his family until the following 
year. The Clintons were always identified with the Bethlehem 
church (see map). Charles Clinton kept a "Journal" of the 
voyage of the "George and Anne," which has been preserved at 
the State Library in Albany.'" It contains little of interest, — 



'"The "Journal of Charles Clinton's Voyage from Ireland to America, 1729." 
on file in the New York State Library at Albany, has been printed at length in 
the Independent Republican of Goshen, New York, issue of December 19th, 
1905. 

36 



Rev. John Moffat. 27 



being at best a mere record of the names of those who died 
during the passage, with mention of some who survived, — and 
nothing is found in such Journal from which the presence on 
the ship of man, woman or child named Mofifat is to be inferred. 

The first Presbyterian Church in what is now Orange County, 
was at Goshen. It was established in 1721, the deed of the 
land to John Yelverton and others, as trustees, bearing date July 
17, 1 72 1. 1 1 This general portion of the Province of New York 
then lay within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction (so far as the 
Presbyterian church was concerned) of the Presbytery of Phila- 
delphia which, with the Presbyteries of New Castle (Delaware) 
and Long Island (New York) formed the Synod of Philadelphia. 
In 1733 the Presbytery of East New Jersey was formed out of 
the Presbytery of Philadelphia ; and the churches in Ulster and 
Orange Counties, under the general designation of the "churches 
of the Highlands," were included in the new Presbytery thus 
established. Five years later, in 1738, the Presbyteries of 
East New Jersey and of Long Island were united as the Presby- 
tery of New York; and there the jurisdiction remained, at least 
nominally, until the period of the Revolution. 

The second Presbyterian church to be established in this 
section of the Highlands was the so-called Bethlehem church, 
the approximate location of which is shown on the map. Rut- 
tenber says in his "History of Orange County" that it was 
founded in 1726, that its first edifice was built in 1731, and that 
its congregation was drawn from the territory now included 
within the towns of Cornwall, Blooming Grove, New Windsor 
and Newburgh. Other writers say that the second Presbyterian 
church to be established in this region was the Wallkill church, 
or "Goodwill church" as it was more generally called, near the 
present village of Montgomery. (See map). It was of this 
church that Rev. John Mofifat was minister from 1751 to about 
1769. In "The Goodwill Memorial," an historical discourse 



^'John Yelverton's granddaughter Mary, — daughter of Anthony Yelverton and 
Phoebe Youngs, ^ — married Rev. John Moffat's oldest son, John Little Moffat. 



28 Rev. John Moffat. 



delivered July 2, 1876, by Rev. James Milligan Dickson, then 
minister of the Goodwill Church, and published in pamphlet 
form by E. M. Ruttenber of Newburgh in 1880, — it is said that 
this church at its first organization (sometime between 1729 
and 1740) consisted of about forty families that had emigrated 
from different parts of Ireland, but principally from the county 
of Londonderry, and that they took to themselves the name of 
"the people of Wallkill." Such name was taken probably from 
the river about which their settlement clustered rather than 
from the precinct of Wallkill, for the precinct was not erected 
until 1743. Evidence is to be gathered from the deed of a 
public highway bearing date September i, 1735, that an edifice 
was then in course of construction for this congregation, although 
the deed of the one and one-half acres on which the "meeting 
house" stood was not executed to the trustees of the church 
until November 9th, 1741 ; but whether such building were the 
first meeting house of this congregation or not is a matter wholly 
of conjecture and quite immaterial for the purposes of this 
book. It is certain they had no settled minister until 1740, the 
occasional supplies for the pulpit being meanwhile furnished 
by the Synod of Philadelphia, of which the Presbytery of New 
York was then a part. 

In 1740, Rev. Joseph Houston was installed as the first 
pastor of the church. He was a native of Ireland but was 
educated in Scotland. After serving for fifteen years as pastor 
of the Elk River church in Cecil County, Maryland, he was 
called to the Goodwill Church, but died October 29, 1740, less 
than six months after his installation. It is believed that he 
was the ancestor of the many Houstons of Orange County, 
one of whom subsequently married a great granddaughter of 
Rev. John Moffat. 

For the eleven years following Mr. Houston's death, the 
church was again without a settled pastor, and in 1751 Rev. John 
Moffat was called and installed. In the "Goodwill Memorial," 
already referred to, the author says of Rev. John Moffat: "Com- 
"paratively little is known either of him or of his work, but 
"sufficient to enable us to form a high opinion of both. The fact 
"that this was his only charge, that a few years later he was with- 
"out employment in the ministry, and that toward the close of his 



Rev. John Moffat. 29 



days he was engaged in teaching, by no means proves that 
''his ministry was a faikire." The author then makes reference 
to the few contemporaneous records of the church which are 
still extant as showing that in 1756,, five years after the installa- 
tion of Mr. Mofifat, a two story building for a parsonage was 
built by the congregation,— an evidence that the church was not 
in, at any rate, a lifeless condition or without financial prosperity; 
that in 1765 the church had just completed, while Mr Moffat 
was still its pastor, the building of a new meeting house,-the 
same edifice, probably, as stands in Montgomery today, although 
it has since been enlarged, remodelled and refurnished; and 
that on July i, 1766, the trustees purchased a farm for the 
parsonage of one hundred acres adjoining the church. 

The difficulties which led to Mr. Moffat's retirement from 
the pastorate early in 1769, were theological probably, rather than 
personal; for during the incumbency of his successor as well as 
after that successor's death, and during the five vears that then 
intervened until the vacancy was filled by the installation of Rev. 
John Blair,— a name well known in the earlier history of Presby- 
terianism in this country,-Mr. Moffat from time to time 
performed ministerial service, administering the rite of baptism, 
etc., as the Goodwill and other church records bear witness. 

The theological convulsions which seized Presbvterianism 
toward the end of the 17th century and continued well through 
the 1 8th if not longer, and resulted in the setting up of various 
standards of orthodoxy on what seem to non-combatants of the 
present age as rather trifling grounds for serious dift'erence be- 
tween presumably earnest minded men, might well account for 
the retirement of Mr. Moffat as pastor of the Goodwill church. 
It is not proposed to attempt here to range Mr. Moffat on the 
one side or the other in the controversy that was certainly waged 
with bitterness during the period of his pastorate. He may 
have been as violent and ill-balanced in his theological predilec- 
tions as the most violent and ill-balanced of his day; or he may 
have been sane and broad and tactful. There is no evidence 
whatsoever tending to show how he should in this wise be 
regarded ; and perhaps it is more satisfactory to his descendants 
that there is none. 



30 Rev. John Moffat. 



The origin and development of the schism, in so far as it 
bore upon the Goodwill church, has been briefly sketched by 
the author of the "Goodwill Memorial" and may be summarized 
as follows : 

In 1689 the revolution which put an end to the reign of the 
Stuarts and placed William of Orange on the throne of England, 
was at an end. Scotland acknowledged his supremacy after the 
requisite amount of bloodshed, and William in return abolished 
episcopacy and established presbyterianism as the only law- 
ful religion of Scotland. But some of the old "Coven- 
anters" who had suffered untold persecutions under the Stuarts, 
refused on conscientious grounds to acquiesce in the terms 
of the settlement and stood aloof from the church thus 
established for Scotland. In their belief that Christ was 
the head of the church and the only authority in matters of 
religion, the Covenanters denied the right of man or men even 
seemingly to usurp those prerogatives; and they declined to 
unite in worship that was led or governed by so-called func- 
tionaries. For eighteen years after the establishment of the 
church in Scotland they bore practical testimony to their faith 
in this particular by meeting for worship in what they called 
"praying societies," and without a minister, until 1707 when 
Rev. John McMillan joined them from the Scotch church; and 
in 1743 the "Reformed Presbytery" was constituted by a union 
of the praying societies. 

But a third standard of orthodoxy had in the meantime 
been raised by seceders from the established church of Scotland, 
who styled their union the "Associate Presbyterian Church," 
the grounds of their secession, as stated by them in 1733, being 
"corruptions in the doctrines of the church and tyranny in the 
administration of her government." 

As might naturally be expected, members of the Reformed 
Presbytery, as well as of the Associate Presbyterian church, were 
among the immigrants to the American colonies; and they 
doubtless brought with them a fair share of the contentiousness, 
bigotry and ill-balance that seem to have been characteristic 
of the professing Christian of that day. In many instances these 
members of the Reformed and Associate churches, maintained 
their separate fellowships, though without church organization, 



Rev. John Moffat. 31 

and appealed from time to time to their respective churches in 
Scotland to send out ministers to them. Finally, in 1752, — the year 
after the installation of Rev. John Moffat as pastor of the Goodwill 
church, — the Reformed Presbytery sent Rev. John Cuthbertson 
as their missionary to America; and in the following year, 1753, 
two missionaries, Galletly and Arnot, appeared for the Associate 
Presbyterian church. Both factions became active at once, 
finding adherents of the one side or the other in almost every 
Presbyterian community in the provinces, and forming numerous 
societies which their respective presbyteries in Scotland were 
unable to supply with ministers. The vexation of the parental 
or Scotch Presbyterian church in America was not concealed. 
Early in 1753 the New Castle Presbytery promulgated "a warning 
or testimony, drawn up by Rev. John Blair," — who subsequently 
became pastor of the Goodwill church, — against several errors 
and evil practices of Cuthbertson ; and the same Presbytery 
later issued a warning against Galletly and Arnot, who were 
characterized as "schismatics and errorists." 

The region of the Highlands was not slow to feel a movement 
that was general throughout the colonies where presbyterianism 
had a foothold. The year after Cuthbertson's arrival, — being 
the second year of Mr. Moffat's pastorate, — a "praying society" 
was organized by Cuthbertson in the general territory which the 
Goodwill church supplied, and it may readily be supposed that 
the strength of the Goodwill congregation was affected and that 
opportunity was promptly afforded for the bitterness and rancor 
which religious differences within the household of a faith are 
so certain to engender. The praying society thus formed lived, 
and seemingly prospered ; for it was the nucleus of the Reformed 
Presbyterian Church of Coldenham, organized in 1795. 

But the greater trials in the pastorate of the Goodwill 
church came later with the efforts of the missionaries of the 
Associate Presbyterian Church. In 1761, a Mr. Robert Annan 
came from Scotland to the general region of the Highlands, and 
within a few years had established preaching stations at con- 
venient distances throughout the territory that contributed to 
the membership of the Goodwill church, extending from Little 
Britain on the east to Bloomingburgh on the west. The first 
meeting house to be built was at Little Britain, being the so-called 



32 Rev. John Moffat. 



Little Britain church. In the fall of 1765, about an acre of land 
was purchased for a meeting house and a graveyard, at the 
corner of the New Windsor and Goshen Turnpike and the road 
to Salisbury Mills on which the old Stonefield house is situated 
(see map) ; but the edifice was not completed for a number of 
years. 

A more serious defection, however, which seems to have been 
nearly coincident in point of time with Mr. Mofifat's retirement 
from the pastorate, occurred three or four years later when 
some of the more prominent members of the Goodwill congre- 
eation withdrew and formed the Associate Church at Neelytown 
(see map), with Rev. Robert Annan as its pastor. The year 
1769 witnessed the completion of the Neelytown church and the 
installation, as Mr. Moffat's successor in the Goodwill church, 
of Rev. John Blair, a graduate of the "Log College'' referred 
to below. He was the same preacher who, sixteen years before, 
had through the New Castle Presbytery inveighed against the 
"errors and evil practices" of the Reformed Presbytery's mis- 
sionarv. Whether Mr. Mofifat found the burden too heavy and 
voluntarily withdrew, or whether his resignation was requested, 
we have absolutely no knowledge. All we know is that his 
ministry ceased ; and we may severally draw our own conclusions. 
The points on which emphasis was placed by the polemics 
on the side of the Associate Church,— as ground for difference 
and disunion, — may be inferred from the following extract from 
the deed of the one-half acre of land on which the Associate 
church at Neelytown was to be (and was) erected: 

"Whereas the tract of land hereinafter described hath been purchased 
with intention to erect a meeting house thereupon, to be appropriated to 
divine service in the public u^orship of God, for the use of a Presbyterian 
minister and congregation in connection with the Associate Presbytery 
of Pennsylvania, or with any other Presbytery in connection with the 
Associate Synod in Scotland to which that Presbytery is subordinate 
adhering to the principles of the church of Scotland as they are exhibited 
in the Confession of Faith agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines, 
who met at Westminister, as a part of the covenanted uniformity in 
religion betwixt the churches of Christ in the kingdom of Scotland. 
England and Ireland as approved by the General Assembly of the church 
of Scotland, in the year of our Lord 1647, and ratified and established 
by act of Parliament in the year 1649, and in the larger and shorter 
catechisms agreed upon by the said Assembly at Westminster, as a part 
of the said covenanted uniformity, and approved by the General Assembly 
of the church of Scotland in the year 1648, and in the directory for the 
public worship of God, agreed upon by the said Assembly at West- 



Rev. John Moffat. 33 



minster as a part of the said covenanted uniformity, and as approved by 
the General Assembly of the church of Scotland, and ratified by act of 
Parliament in the year 1645, and in the form of Presbyterian church 
government and ordination of ministers, agreed upon by the said Assembly 
at Westminster as a part of the said covenanted uniformity and as 
approved by the General Assembly of the church of Scotland, in the 
year 1645, 

"And whereas such purchase was made and the said building or meet- 
ing house hath been begun, and is to be erected and furnished by the volun- 
tary contributions of divers well-disposed persons, professing principles 
of religion and church government agreeable to the mode or system 
above mentioned, and is intended for the use and purpose only of a 
minister and congregation of that particular persuasion, forever, 

"Now, therefore," etc. 

For reasons pointed out in an earlier part of this book, the 
writer believes that Rev. John Moffat was born and lived through 
his early youth in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the general 
locality, probably, of Woodbridge which is distant scarcely five 
miles from Perth Amboy, eight or nine miles from Elizabethtown, 
and about twelve miles from New Brunswick. He graduated 
in 1749, with the degree of A. B., from the College of New 
Jersey, — at one time known as Nassau Hall and since and more 
popularly known as Princeton College, — the commencement exer- 
cises being held that year at New Brunswick. The following is 
taken from the New York Gazette of Monday, October 2. 
1749: 

"On Wednesday last," that is, September 27th, "was held at New 
Brunswick the Anniversary Commencement of the College of New Jersey; 
at which, after the usual publick Disputations the following young Gen- 
tlemen were admitted to the Degree of Batchelors of the arts, viz. : 

John Brown John Moffat 

William Burnet John Todd 

John Hoge and 

Thomas Kennedy Eleazer Whittlesey 

After which a handsome Latin Oration was pronounced by Mr. Burnet, 
one of the Graduates ; and the Ceremony concluded to the universal 
Satisfaction of a numerous Audience, the whole being conducted with 
great Propriety and Decorum." 

The College of New Jersey was the outgrowth of seemingly 
rancorous differences among the Presbyterians of the middle 
colonies. The missionaries of the Reformed Presbytery and of 
the Associate church did not reach America until some five or six 
years after the founding of the college ; so the strife and disunion 
caused by them and their adherents merely followed and was 



34 Rev. John Moffat. 



not the cause of the conflict and bitterness that raged within the 
walls of what, without taking sides, we will call, for convenience, 
the orthodox Presbyterian church. 

With the rapidly swelling wave of Scotch-Irish immigration 
that commenced toward the end of the 17th century and spread 
through Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and New 
York during the i8th century, the need of ministers for the 
increasing number of churches, presented a problem that more 
and more persistently forced itself upon the Presbyterian clergy 
of the dav. Appeals for supplies from Scotland, Ireland and 
even New England were necessarily but insufficiently responded 
to, and the question of the education and preparation here of 
those who would enter the ministry of the Presbyterian church 
was agitated in the Synod of Philadelphia during the third and 
fourth decades of the i8th century. The comparative inaccessibil- 
ity, so far as travel was concerned, of both Harvard and Yale, — 
but more probably the shading in those institutions of the rigid 
Calvinism for which the Scotch church in America then stood, — 
coupled with the absence throughout the middle colonies of any 
higher school under orthodox control, prompted a few of the 
more earnest and distinguished of the Presbyterian ministers of 
the day to open classical schools of their own in which they 
taught the liberal arts and oflfered themselves as preceptors to 
those who might wish to read for the ministry. The three of 
these schools that have attracted the largest share of the historian's 
attention were those opened by Rev. Jonathan Dickinson at 
Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth, New Jersey) ; by Rev. Aaron 
Burr (father of him of the same name who later became Vice 
President of the United States) at Newark, New Jersey; and, 
far more notable than either of the others, by Rev. William 
Tennent at Neshaminy in Pennsylvania, a short distance over the 
border from Trenton. William Tennent's school, commenced 
in 1727, was conducted by him in a small log cabin, measuring 
only twenty feet square, which he had erected on the banks of 
Neshaminy creek. The school became known, at first in derision, 
but later in common speech, as the "Log College;" and its 
graduates, if they may be called such, played important parts 
in the history of Presbyterian strife through the next few genera- 
tions. The schools kept by Jonathan Dickinson at Elizabethtown 



Rev. John Moffat. 35 



and by Aaron Burr at Newark, are known chiefly because Mr. 
Dickinson later became the first, and Mr. Burr the second, 
president of the College of New Jersey, and, incidentally, because 
It is believed that many of the members of the first two or three 
classes which the College graduated, were students in the school 
of the one or the other at the time of the founding of the college. 
John Moflfat was a member of the second class to be graduated 
from the College. Instruction commenced at the college toward 
the end of May, 1747; the first commencement was held Novem- 
ber 9, 1748. when six gradutes received the degree of B. A. ; and 
the second commencement, held September 27, 1749, was the 
one at which John Mofifat received his bachelor's degree. It is 
possible that he was a student at Elizabethtown with Mr. Dick- 
inson when the college opened, or he may have come to the 
college through the influence of Rev. John Pierson, one of its 
founders, who was pastor, at the time, of the Presbyterian church 
at Woodbridge, New Jersey. We have absolutely 'no knowledge 
of the influences that led him to enter the College' of New Jersey. 
What the requirements were for admission to the college 
during its first year, or what its curriculum of study was, are 
not now known ; but it is hardly probable that the standard for 
admission was materially lower than that which the minutes of 
the Trustees show was prescribed at the commencement of 1748 
for admission thereafter. The following rules were adopted on 
the day of the commencement of 1748:" 

"i. None may expect to be admitted into College but sucb as being 
exammed by the President and Tutors shall be found able to rende? 
Virgil and Tully s Orations into English, and to turn English into 
true and grammatical Latin ; and to be so well acquainted with the Greek 
as to render any part of the four Evangelists in that language into Latin 
or iinghsh; and to give the grammatical connexion of the words. 

, . "^- Every student [that] enters College shall transcribe the Laws 
which being signed by the President, shall be testimonv of his admission, 
and shall be kept by him while he remains a member of the College as the 
rule of his Behavior." 

The ctirriculum from 1748 on, continued Latin, Greek and 
Mathematics throughout the course, while other subjects from 
time to time prescribed for the student were Natural Philosophy, 



"Maclean's History of the College of New Jersey. Philadelphia, T. B. Lippincott 
& Co., 1877. 



36 Rev. John Moffat. 



Astronomy, Rhetoric and Declamations, Logic and Mental and 
Moral Philosophy. The minutes of the meeting of the Trustees 
held on commencement day, 1748, record a resolution that com- 
mencements in future should be held on the last Wednesday of 
September in each year, and that commencement in 1749 should 
be held at New Brunswick. The reason for the selection of such 
date was, probably, to avoid conflict with the commencement at 
Harvard, which then was held on the second Wednesday of 
September, and with that at Yale, then held on the third Wednes- 
day of September in each year. The selection of New Brunswick 
for the commencement of 1749 may have had a theological in- 
ducement, but is more probably explained by the fact that the 
Trustees were at that time casting about for a permanent site 
for the college, — the choice lying chiefly between Princeton and 
New Brunswick, — and that they hoped by this means possibly to 
interest the residents of New Brunswick to such an extent that 
they would come forward with liberal pecuniary aid toward the 
erection of a suitable building or buildings. If that were the 
motive, the hope was not realized. Gov. Belcher of New Jersey, 
the stalwart friend of the college, was firmly fixed in his choice 
of Princeton; and in 1752 that site was selected. A college hall 
was built which, at the request of Gov. Belcher, was named 
"Nassau Hall" in deference to William HI of England, of the 
illustrious house of Nassau; and in 1756 the college moved to 
Princeton and for many years thereafter was almost exclusively 
known as Nassau Hall. 

When the college first opened, — in May, 1747, — the students 
met at the house of the President, Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, in 
Elizabethtown. Mr. Dickinson died, however, on October 7, i747> 
and Rev. Aaron Burr was at once elected President and the 
students were taken from Elizabethtown to Newark where Mr. 
Burr resided ; and there the home of the college remained until 
it moved to Princeton, nine years later. 

To understand properly the theological controversies out of 
which Princeton College sprung, and possibly to draw some 
inferences, however weak, concerning Rev. John Moffat's prob- 
able associations in the religious turmoil that raged during his 



Rev. John Moffat. 37 



pre-ministerial life, it will be necessary to go back a few years 
to the origin of the schism that gave the zealots of either side 
such a grand opportunity for conflict. 

In 1739 and 1740, Rev. George Whitefield, the English 
revivalist, made a tour through the colonies; and his work on 
that tour has come down in the history of Presbyterianism as the 
"Great Awakening." It was probably the most famous religious 
revival that this country has known, and, if the number of those 
converted under the stress of religious excitement and the 
rapidity of their conversion are truly the measure of the success 
of such a work, was probably the most successful. Whitefield 
differed from that other great Methodist leader, Wesley, in that 
Whitefield remained a rigid Calvinist while Welsey stood for 
Arminianism,— that is, against Calvin's doctrine of absolute pre- 
destination, believing rather in conditional election and repro- 
bation, and holding, in opposition to the Calvinistic doctrine of the 
perseverance of the saints, that there is always the possibility in 
life of a fall from grace. Arminianism taught, too, that the 
atonement was for all, though none but believers could partake 
of its benefits; that in order to exercise true faith man must be 
regenerated and renewed by the operation of the Holy Spirit; 
and that such grace is not irresistible. 

The Synod of Philadelphia, which at that time was the only 
synod of the Presbyterian church in the colonies, had for some 
years been gradually tending toward the establishment of a 
college for theological as well as for liberal training; and 
although there were members of the Synod, both clerical and lay, 
who differed from the majority as to what should constitute a 
proper degree of learning for admission to the ministry, the 
members of the Synod were nevertheless reasonably united, up to 
1739, in their intention to establish a college. With the advent 
of Whitefield, however, and of the bitter controversies that his 
revival work evoked, the possibility quickly failed of uniting in 
the establishment of a college; and the Synod was soon split 
wide open on the questions, first, as to the efficacy or true value 
of that kind of preaching which is designed to call forth an 
immediate confession of religious belief, and, secondly, as a 
possible corollary of the first, as to what constituted a proper 
degree of learning for admission to the ministry. 



38 Rev. John Moffat. 



The Presbytery of New Brunswick (in New Jersey) in- 
cluded among its members some of the more prominent graduates 
of the Log College, — Rev. Gilbert Tennent. one of the able 
sons of William Tennent, the founder, being perhaps the most 
notable, — and had early taken a pronounced stand, adverse to that 
of a majority of the Synod, on the second of these two questions ; 
and its members were finally put quite without the pale of 
reconciliation or seeming forgiveness by their participation, along 
with Log College men generally, in Whitefield's revival efforts. 
The climax was finally reached under the following circumstances : 
A student of the Log College, John Rowland by name, had been 
Hcensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Brunswick and 
sent into the limits of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, notwith- 
standing that the Synod had a standing committee empowered 
and directed by resolution to examine all candidates not possessed 
of an academic degree and had forbidden the licensing of any 
such except after examination and approval by that committee. 
At once upon Rowland's appearance the Synod censured the 
Presbytery of New Brunswick for its action, refused to recognize 
the vaHdity of the license it had issued or to permit Mr. Row- 
land to act anywhere as a minister of the church, and ordered 
that he submit himself at once to the committee for examination. 
Thus the battle was on. The Presbytery of New Brunswick 
became intensely indignant. It retorted, says Rev. John DeWitt 
in his History of Princeton College,'^ that the Synod's action 
was a reflection upon the character of the training received at 
the Log College; that it showed the Synod to be absolutely 
blind to the religious needs of the growing colonies ; that it was 
an undeserved rebuke to Rev. William Tennent who, more 
intelligently and more faithfully than any other minister of the 
church, had labored and sacrificed in the interest of classicil and 
theological education ; and that the basis of the Synod's acfion 
was its own wilful opposition to vital religion. And the Presby- 
terv of New Brunswick seceded from the Svnod. This was in 
174T. In the following year the Presbytery of New York with- 
drew, anrl three years later united wHh the Presbyteries of New 
Brunswick and New Castle in forming the Synod of New York. 



'^Universities and their Sons. Boston: R. Herndon Company. 1898. 



Rev. John Moffat. 39 

The Presbytery of New Castle here referred to was organized 
first under the name of the Presbytery of Londonderry, by a 
number of Log College men, within the territorial jurisdiction 
of the already existing Presbytery of New Castle, its members 
declaring their unwillingness to remain subject to a presbytery 
which had any connection with the Synod of Philadelphia ; but 
before the formation of the new Synod of New York it had 
abandoned the name Londonderry and, rather gratuitously, it 
would seem, had assumed the already preempted name of New 
Castle. 

It was at this juncture that the College of New Jersey was 
planned by Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, a graduate of Yale in 1706, 
and pastor, as we have seen, at Elizabethtown ; Rev. Aaron Burr, 
Yale 1735, of Newark; Rev. John Pierson, Yale 171 1, pastor of 
the church at Woodbridge ; and Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, 
Harvard 1721, pastor of the Scotch Church in New York city, — 
the only Presbyterian church at that time in New York city. All 
four of these men were identified with the new Synod of New 
York and were in general sympathy with the Whitefield move- 
ment. They took warning possibly from the tendency to turmoil 
that must have seemed to them inevitable in all matters of church 
control, and sought to place the college they were about to 
found beyond the jurisdiction of any synod or ecclesiastical body, 
and did not even intend that it should stand primarily for the 
education of candidates for the ministry. The first charter of 
the college was granted to them (associated with three laymen) 
in August, 1747; but question having arisen as to the legal suffi- 
ciency of that charter, a second charter was granted in 1748, 
while John Mofifat was still a student in the college, then at 
Newark. 

We have indulged in this rather extended sketch of the con- 
ditions out of which Princeton College grew, because of the 
coloring it may give to the situation, as we see it, when John 
Mofifat took up his work as a minister of the Presbyterian 
church. The records of the Presbytery of New York show that 
subsequently to his ordination. Rev. John Moffat was a member 
of that presbytery; but that might possibly, and indeed probably, 
have followed from his being ordained and installed as the 



40 Rev. John Moffat. 



minister of a church in the Highlands, which lay within the 
territorial jurisdiction of such Presbytery. We have no means 
of knowing whether his retirement from the pastorate of the 
Goodwill church, twenty years later, was due in any part 
to his holding views, one way or the other, not acceptable 
to his congregation, touching, for instance, the practical 
value of "vivid religious experiences," or whether his retire- 
ment was due to the secessions that followed the activities 
of the Reformed and Associate missionaries, already referred to, 
or to other causes. It is probable that when he graduated at 
college he was not identified with what might be called the radical 
wing, for which Rev. Gilbert Tennent and other Log College 
men stood; but this is, at best, conjecture and even if sound 
would afford little indication of the tendency of his maturing 
development. 

Of the seven men graduated in the class of 1749 at New 
Brunswick, four beside John Moffat became Presbyterian 
ministers : 

John Brown who, in 1753, was ordained and called to the 
United Churches of Timber Ridge and New Providence, in 
Virginia, and opened a grammar school near his residence which 
was afterwards merged in Liberty Hall and finally grew into 
Washington College ; 

John Hogg (or Hoge) who was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of New Brunswick in 1753, was ordained by the 
Presbytery of New Castle in 1755, and became the first pastor 
of the churches of Opecquan and Cedar Creek, Virginia; 

John Todd who, in November 1750, was licensed to preach 
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, and went at once to 
Virginia where he became assistant minister of the Providence 
church, and incidentally kept a classical school ; and 

ElEazER Whittlesey who was licensed by the Presbytery 
of New Castle in 1750 and went to Harford County, Maryland, 
where he died within two years. 

The other two graduates of 1749 were: 

Thomas Kennedy, of whom nothing seems to be known; 

and 

William Burnet, a resident of Elizabethtown who became 



Rev. John Moffat. 41 



a distinguished physician, was a member of the Continental Con- 
gress, served as Surgeon-General of the American Army for 
the Eastern District of the United States throughout the Revolu- 
tionary War, and was for two years a representative in Congress. 

From an old bible now in the possession of Dr. J. F. Howe 
of Brooklyn [No. 169 below] it appears that John Moffat was 
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York on May 30, 
1750, and that he was ordained by the same Presbytery at the 
Goodwill church on October 4, 1750. 

It is said in a book entitled "Princeton College during the 
i8th Century," written by Samuel Davies Alexander,!^ that John 
■Moffat was a Scotchman by birth ; but no authority is given for 
such statement, and none has come to the writer's notice. It is 
also stated there that he was ordained by the Presbytery of New 
York, in 1751 ; that in 1773 he was residing in Delaware, — a 
statement that the writer hereof has been unable to verify; and 
that in 1795 he joined the Associate church. The last mentioned 
date is undoubtedly a misprint; for a subsequent clause in the 
same paragraph states that he died April 22, 1788. It may be 
that John Moffat's retirement from the pastorate of the Goodwill 
church was due to his sympathizing with the Associate church ; 
but the little evidence that there is does not seem to point that 
way. 

In the "History of the Presbyterian Church in America" by 
Rev. Richard Webster,'4 it is stated that in 1773 Rev. John Moffat 
resided in the bounds of the New Castle Presbytery, without 
charge, and without employment in the ministry ; and such state- 
ment is doubtless the authority upon which Mr. Samuel Davies 
Alexander relied, fifteen years later, for his assertion that in 1773 
John Moffat resided in Delaware. An old account book now in 
the possession of Rev. John Moffat's granddaughter, Mrs. Mary 
Moffat Young [No. 30 below], contains many memoranda in 
John Moffat's handwriting covering a long period of years ; but 
it contains nothing from which a residence out of Ulster County, 
New York, is to be inferred. 



"Published in New York in 1872 by A. D. F. Randolph & Co. 
"Published in 1857, in Philadelphia, by Joseph M. Wilson. 



42 Rev. John Moffat. 



As to the personal characteristics and general appearance of 
John Moffat, we also have little information. In a letter written 
forty years ago, Mrs. Mary Moffat Allen [No. 64 below] tells, 
from conversations had in her girlhood with the "Aunts," — great- 
aunts they were, of hers, — Mrs. Roosa and Mrs. Howe [Nos. 8 
and 9 below], that Rev. John Moffat was small of stature, 
with scant sandy, hair and pale blue eyes, while his wife, on the 
other hand, was of fine commanding presence, had dark eyes, and 
was possessed of energy and ability. And this is all that has 
came to the writer's notice. 

In a census of slaves and slaveholders in the Province of 
New York, taken in 1755, less than one hundred slaves were 
recorded ; and of these Rev. John Moffat had one. 

It is known that in the later years of his life Rev. John 
Moffat taught school, — he described it as a Latin School, — at 
Little Britain (whether at Stonefield or not is uncertain) and 
from the old account book in Mrs. Young's possession, already 
referred to, we learn that the school continued for about three 
years, — from 1778 to 1781. Among the pupils wdiose names are 
found in the book, are Alexander, Charles, George. DeWitt and 
Mary Clinton; Robert and William Burnet; Robert L. and 
William Annan; Abimael and John Nicoll ; William Townsend; 
William Denning; David and George Denniston ; Stephen Belk- 
nap; James and Samuel Boyd; Nathaniel and Isaac Dubois; 
Joseph Barber; David Davison; Leah DeWitt; Charles and 
Susanna Smith ; and James and Jesson Wilkin. 

The rates of tuition charged do not seem exorbitant to us in 
the present day. A bill rendered General James Clinton under 
date of February 15, 1781, is transcribed in the book and reads 
as follows : 



Gen. James Clinton, Dr. 

to John Moffat 
for school teaching : 

To 2^4 years schooling of Alexander and Charles, 
to the middle of February, 1781, at 5 

pounds per year, comes to i22 :io:o 

" 2 years and 27 days of George 8 :i2 :o 



Rev. John Moffat. 43 

To 2 years of DeWitt lo : o :o 

" i^ years of Polly 2 : 5 :o 

£43: 7:0 
Received 19 :io :8i/^ 

Balance due £22^ :i6:3V^ 

The school continued until July 18, 1781, by which time, as 
the account book further shows, an additional £6 :5 :o was run up 
against Gen. James Clinton which he liquidated to the extent of 
£2, :8 :o by the delivery of eight bushels of wheat at six shillings 
per bushel, leaving £3:17:0 due on the additional bill, or a total 
of £27:13:3^ in which amount, as John Moffat writes in the 
account book, "General James Clinton is indebted to me for the 
"schooling of his children." 

The book shows that the tuition of other students was paid 
in wheat and in Indian corn ; and it is quite possible that the 
inability to collect for tuition during the distressing period of 
the Revolutionary War led to the discontinuance of the school. 

John Moffat died on April 22, 1788, and his widow occupied 
the home at Stonefield until her death on October 18, 1800. "On 
the hilltop, a few rods north of the old Stonefield house," wrote the 
late George Pierson, of Campbell Hall [No. 116 below], under 
date of May 6, 1907, "can be seen a number of sunken graves, 
some with common field stones for markers, some have been 
broken off. but most of them without any. These are the graves 
of the Rev. John Little and family, and of the Rev. John Moffat 
and wife." 

John Moffat's will bears date March 10, 1787, nearly a year 
before his death, and is recorded in the office of the clerk of the 
Surrogate's Court of Ulster County, at Kingston, New York, in 
Book B of Wills, at page 156. It was not proved until January 
12, 1795. It reads as follows: 

In The Name of God Amen. 

I John Moffat, of the Precinct of New Windsor in the County of 
Ulster and State of New York, Clerk, being weak in body but of sound 
mind and memory, Blessed be God, Do this tenth day of March, one 



44 Rev. John Moffat. 



thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, make publish and declare this 
to be my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is 
to say, 

Imprimis, I order all my just debts and funeral charges to be paid 
out of my personal estate in as short a time after my decease as may be 
done with convinency. 

Item I give and bequeath all my books to be equally divided by lot 
in nine parts between my loving wife and my eight children (to wit) 
John Little, William, Margaret, Mary, Samuel, Frances, Elizabeth and 
Catharine. 

Item, I give and bequeath to my son William the sum of ten pounds 
lawfull money of New York to be paid him by my Executors hereinafter 
named on or before the expiration of three years from my decease together 
with my wearing apparel except my new Beaver hat which I give to my 
son Samuel. 

Item, I give unto my beloved wife, Margaret Moffat, the use and 
profits of all my lands and tenenments whereof I shall die seized, during 
the term of her natural life or while she remains my Widow, and at her 
marriage or death, I do order that the same be sold by my Executors 
and be equally divided between my son Samuel and my three youngest 
daughters (to wit Frances, Elizabeth and Catharine). 

Item, I do order that all my grain of every kind and other provisions 
together with all my Wool and flax that I shall be possessed of at the 
time of my death as well as the grain of every kind that I may then have 
growing on the ground shall be kept and reserved for the use of my 
family and not inventoryed at all by my Executors. 

Item all the residue and remainder of my personal Estate not herein 
before particularly disposed of I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife, 
Margaret, my son Samuel and my three youngest daughters (to wit) 
Frances, Elizabeth and Catharine to be equally divided among them in 
the following manner that is to say, I order an inventory and appraiz- 
ment to be made of all the said residue and remainder of all my personal 
Estate not herein particularly disposed of as aforesaid and that my said 
wife said son Samuel and said three last mentioned daughters shall each 
be entitled to an equal share of the value thereof according to such 
appraizment which legacies so hereby devised to my three mentioned 
daughters and son Samuel shall be paid to them at their respective mar- 
riages or at their Mothers death or marriage. 

Item I order that my said three last mentioned daughters continue 
to live with their mother on the place whereon I now live and to be 
subject to her directions (and if she thinks proper my daughter Catharine 
may continue with her Brother in law Mr. Jacob Wright) until they 
respectively marry, and I do hereby make ordain constitute and appoint 
mv well beloved Wife and my well beloved sons Samuel Moffat and John 
L. Moffat Executors to this my last Will and Testament in trust for the 
purposes in this my will contained. , ^i j 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day 

and year first above written. a/t ^.- „ /t q ^ 

•^ John Moffat (L. S.) 

Signed sealed and acknowledged by the testator as and 

for his last Will and Testament in the presence of 

us who were present at the signing and sealing 

thereof and at his request subscribed the same as 

witnesses in the presence of each other. 

John Johnson, 
Alexander Lourie 
John Gillson. 



PART IV. 



Rev. John Little. 

UNTIL the old account book held by Mrs. Mary Moffat 
Young, already referred to, came to the writer's notice, he 
had considered it an established fact that Rev. John Little 
and his family came over with the Clinton party, in the "George 
and Anne," in 1729; but entries in that book would seem to indi- 
cate that, if not in Ulster County, John Little was certainly in the 
Province of New York as early as February 14, 1723/24, for on 
that date appears the following release signed in the book by 
John Chambers and Ebenezer Holmes, whoever they may have 
been: 

"Then received from John Little the sum of one pound four shillings 
of Yourk money in full of all debts, dues and demands from the beginning 
of the world to the day and year above said. 

"Witness our hands 

John Chambers, 
Ebenezer Holmes." 

And yet among the list of Charles Clinton's followers, as 
published in the Inde:p^nde;nt Re^publican (of Goshen, New 
York), issue of December 26, 1905, appear the names of Rev. 
John Little, Frances Fitzgerald his wife, and their family. 

The entries in the book commence under date of December 
171 5. and contain memoranda of the regular collection of rents 
from estates, evidently in Ireland, down to 1721. After that the 
dates are irregular and the entries refer not to the collection of 
rents but to the sale of farm produce, hardware, dry goods, etc. ; 
but v/hether in Ireland or in America is not apparent. Subse- 
quently to 1733, the names of Crawford, Denniston, Clinton, 
McClaughrey and others closely identified with the region of 
Little Britain are of more or less frequent occurrence. The 
estates from which rents were collected in the earlier years were 
Bailey McEagan ; Lissmore ; Lissduff ; Drummure ; Dereycarey ; 
Upper and Lower Glencoss ; Lissabady ; and Drumhoughly ; and 
that the book was then kept by John Little himself may be 

47 



48 Rev. John Little. 



inferred from an occasional entry that the rent was received, from 
this tenant or that, "by ye hand of my brother George" or "by 
ye hands of my brother Simon." 

Beginning with May i6, 1744, are many closely consecu- 
tive entries of payment of wages to different men, with the times 
of their service carefully noted, — engaged, probably, in the build- 
ing of Stonefield ; for on one end of that building high up under 
the eaves, the figures "1745" are cut in the stone, — the year the 
house was built. It was a substantial structure for those days, 
and though not architecturally pretentious, is a substantial struc- 
ture still. The photograph here reproduced does not permit a 
just impression of the building. The color and the setting of 
the house give a dignity and an attractiveness that are wholly 
wanting in the picture, and leave a pleasing impression upon 
those who see it. 

At what precise time John Little bought the lands in Little 
Britain upon which he built Stonefield. is not known. The tract, 
as would appear from subsequent deeds, consisted of 483 acres 
and lay about one mile north of the present location of Salisbury 
Mills. (See Map.) Little Britain, in those days, says Eager in 
his History of Orange County (page 630), was a settlement of 
large and indefinite extent, reaching in one direction from the 
present village of New Windsor to what is now the town line 
of Montgomery, and in another from the present site of Wash- 
ingtonville to what is now the south lines of Newburgh and 
Montgomery. 

It may be interesting here to trace the title and occupancy of 
Stonefield from the death of John Little, about 1752, (his will 
was proved on February 21, 1753), to the present day. John 
Little's will, which is set forth below, was a wordy document at 
best. The testator's daughter Harriet, — subsequently called 
Hannah, — had married a man named Galation and by him had 
two sons, John and David. The will gave one-half of Stonefield 
to the grandson, John Galation. when he should arrive at the 
age of twenty-one and provided that if John should die without 
issue such half should pass to the grandson, David Galation, or, 
if he were not living and no issue survived him then to the third 
child of the testator's daughter Hannah Galation ; but if all such 
daughter's children should die without leaving issue then the 



Rev. John Little. 49 



entire plantation of Stonefield was to go to the oldest child of 
the testator's daughter Margaret Moffat. As a matter of fact, 
no child was born to the daughter Margaret Moffat until more 
than thirteen months after the date of the will, when her son, 
John Little Moffat, was born; and the facts that title to the 
entire "plantation of Stonefield" was vested in him and that upon 
attaining his majority in 1774 he leased it to his parents for 
a nominal rental for the balance of their lives, suggest that 
none of the Galation children lived to attain the age of twenty- 
one or left issue survivingr 

Upon the death of John Little Moffat on February 10, 
1788,— he died intestate (Goshen Probate Administrations, vol. 
A, page 9),— Stonefield passed, by operation of law, to his five 
children, the oldest of whom was then but eight years of age, as 
his heirs at law. Title remained in them until February 5, 181 1, 
when the three daughters and their husbands and the two sons 
and their wives, joined in a deed of the entire place to David 
Crawford, of Newburgh, and James Denniston, of Blooming 
Grove, describing the tract as the westerly part of the original 
Rip Van Dam patent (of 1,000 acres) and as containing 483 
acres, excepting therefrom the burial ground in the orchard, 
about one-quarter of an acre in extent. The consideration was 
$12,075 (Orange County Deeds, vol. S, p. 424). 

James Roberts bought the place from James Denniston in 
^^33 (Crawford's title seems in some way to have been extin- 
guished), and the title was still in the Roberts family in 1906. 

Although John Little has always been designated "Rev.," 
there is no evidence of his having officiated as a clergyman 
at any time during his life at Little Britain. Indeed the 07ily 
evidence of his right to the designation that has come to the 
writer's notice is the entry in his own handwriting in his family 
bible published 1698, — which was formerly in the possession of 
Mrs. Mary Moffat Allen [No. 64 below],— that certain of his 
children were baptized by him. The baptismal names and dates 
of birth of his seven children were recorded in that bible as 
follows : 



50 Rev. John Little. 



1. Frances Little, h 14 July, 1709. She m John Nicoll, son 

of Dr. John Nicoll (who is said to have come from Scot- 
land about 171 1 ) and Rebekah Dowding, of Boston. 

2. Elizabeth Little, h 8 April, 171 1. 

3. Harriet Little (subsequently called Hannah) b 19 May, 

1713. She m Galation. 

4. Ellinor Little b 22 January, 1718. She m — Mc- 

Garrah. 

5. Ann Little b 8 October, 1721. 

6. Maria Little (subsequently called Margaret) b 30 May, 

1724. She m Rev. John Moffat. 

7. Simon Little b 7 September, 1726. He evidently died 

young. 

Rev. John Little's wife, Frances Fitzgerald, survived him 
(her will was proved December 10, 1757), and is mentioned in 
his will, as were all the children except Ann and Simon. 

The daughter Frances was married to John Nicoll in or about 
the month of September, 1736, their marriage license bearing date 
September 7th of that year ; and their son John Nicoll, 3rd, was 
married to Hannah Youngs (daughter of Abimael Youngs) on 
January 26, 1766. That the relations between the house of 
Little and the house of Nicoll became somewhat strained as time 
wore on, may be inferred from the following (to us) amusing 
entry written by Rev. John Little in the old account book already 
referred to, under date of May 6, 1752: 

"Doctor John Nicoll Dr. 

to John Little 
"for meat, drink, washing and lodging, and for taking his horses out of 
the stable and riding them through the country without leave or Hberty 
from me the said John Little, and for putting his horse frequently in my 
barn amongst my wheat to the great damage of me the said John Little." 

The amount of the charge unfortunately is erased. 

John Little's will shows that, cleric though he had at one 
time been, he was well to do at the time of his death and had 
presumably been thrifty in life. His sister, Frances Little, was 



Rev. John Little. 51 



the wife of Alexander Denniston, — one of the party who came 
on the "George and Anne," and a brother in law of Charles 
Clinton, the accredited leader of that party, — and the mother 
of the four Denniston sons, George, James, John and William, 
who were prominent in the colonial and revolutionary history 
of the county. 

The will appointed Rev. John Moffat, Jacobus Bruyn and 
Michael Jaction as executors (John Moffat alone qualified), and 
bore date May 13, 1752, — just one week after the entry above 
quoted of disapproval of Doctor John Nicoll, and more than a 
year before the birth of John Little Moffat, to whom fell the 
ownership of Stonefield. It was admitted to probate February 
21, 1753, snd reads as follows: 

"In the Name of God Amen. The thirteenth day of May in the year 
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty two, I John Little of 
Stonefield in the County of Ulster in the Province of New York, Gentle- 
man, being weak in body but of sound memory (blessed be God for it) 
therefore calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it 
is appointed for all men once to die, Do make ordain and publish this 
my last will and testament, that is to say, 

"Principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the 
hands of God that gave it and for my body, I recommend it tc the earth 
to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the discretion of 
my executors, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall 
receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such 
worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me within this life, 
I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. 

"First of all I order and it is my will and pleasure that all my just 
debts and funeral expenses and legacies herein after mentioned be well 
and truly paid out of my personal estate and if my personal estate is 
not sufficient to pay all my debts and legacies, my will is that the re- 
maining debts and legacies hereinafter mentioned be well and truly paid 
and discharged out of my real estate. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife, Frances Little, 
seven pounds New York currency to be paid to her yearly by my ex- 
ecutors out of my real estate during her life time, if she remains my 
widow. 

"Also, I order and it is my will that my beloved wife, Frances Little 
shall have sufficient meat and drink for herself and her negro wench out 
of my real estate yearly as long as she continues my widow. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife, Frances Little 
my negro wench named Silvia and all my household furniture, beds and 
bed cloths, except one bed which I give to my daughter Elisabeth Little. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter Frances Little 
the sum of twenty pounds New York Currency to be paid to her at the 
end of three years after my decease. 

"Also, I giv,e and bequeath to my beloved daughter Elizabeth Little 
one feather bed and bed cloths and sixty pounds of money New York 
currency the one half thereof to be paid to her at the end of two yeats 



52 Rev. John Little. 



after my decease and the other half of said Sixty pounds to be paid to 
her at the end of three years after my decease. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elinor McGarrah the sum 
of ten pounds New York currency to be paid to her at the end of two 
years after my decease. 

"Also, it is my will that my executors hereinafter mentioned keep 
my grandson John McGarrah at school till he learns to read and write 
English and the five common rules in Arithmetick and then bind him to 
a house carpenter or any other good trade they think fit. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my daughter Hannah Galatian my 
negro man named William and if he happens to survive her I give him 
after her decease to her son John Galatian and if he dies without lawfull 
issue I give him to her son David Galatian, and if he dies without lawfull 
issue I give him in like manner to her third child. 

"Also, I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Moffat my negro 
wench called Rachel (which she now has). 

"Also, I give and bequeath and devise to my grandson John Galatian 
when he arrives at the age of twenty one years and to the heirs of his 
body lawfully begotten forever the onE-halk oi- my plantation of Stone- 
FiELD which I now possess, that is to say the same number of acres men- 
tioned in my deed to be equally divided, quantity and quality, To have and 
to Hold at the age of twenty one years and to the heirs of his body law- 
fully begotten forever. But if he dies without issue lawfully begotten, 
then I give and devise the one half of my said plantation of Stonefield 
to my grandson David Galatian in like manner as I gave it to my grand- 
son John Galatian, But if he dies without lawfull issue, then I give and 
devise the One half of my said plantation of Stonefield in the like manner 
as aforesaid to the third child of my daughter Hannah Galatian and in 
like manner as aforesaid I give my plantation of Stonefield to her oldest 
surviving child lawfully begotten, Still the male child shall Inherit before 
the female. 

"But if all the children of my daughter Hannah Galatian shall die 
without issue lawfully begotten, then I give and bequeath my whole plan- 
tation of Stonefield to the oldest child of my daughter Margaret Moffat 
and to the heirs of its body lawfully begotten forever. But if the oldest 
child of my daughter Margaret Moffat shall die without lawfull issue 
then I give and devise my said plantation of Stonefield to her second 
child in like manner as aforesaid, and if her second child dies without 
lawfull issue then I give and bequeath my whole Plantation of Stone- 
field to her third child and to the heirs of its body lawfully begotten for- 
ever, and in like manner as aforesaid I give my whole plantation of 
Stonefield to the oldest surviving child of my daughter Margaret Moffat 
still the male child inheriting before the female. 

"But if my daughter Galatian's Children and their lawful issue 
live to inherite the aforesaid one half of my Plantation of Stonefield, 
the other moiety or half of my said Plantation of Stonefield as it is) 
bounded in my deed as fully and as amply as it is now possessed by me. 
I give Bequeath and devise to the oldest son that my daughter Margaret 
Moffat shall have and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever 
to be equally divided quantity and quality. But if he dies without la\y- 
full issue then I give bequeath and devise the said one half of my said 
Plantation of Stonefield to be divided, quantity and quality, to the second 
son of my daughter Margaret Moffat and to the heirs of his body lawfully 
begotten forever. But if he dies without lawfull issue, then I give the 
said one half of my Plantation of Stonefield in like manner as aforesaid 
to the third son of my daughter Margaret Moffat and to the heirs of his 
body lawfully begotten forever, But if he dies without lawful issue, then 



Rev. John Little. 53 



L^'J^,'^u"n''u^ manner to her fourth son. But if my daughter Margaret 
1'^? n'nn" ^,7 r ^°"^ Jut daughters then I give beque^ath and S vise 
the said one ha f of my said Plantation of Stonefield to oldest daughter of 
my daughter Margaret Moffat and if she dies without lawful issue 
Q. " I g/ye bequeath and devise the said one half of my said Plantation of 
btoneheld to the second daughter of my daughter Margaret Moffat and 
to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten forever to be equally divided 
quantity and quality. But if she dies without lawful issue then I give 
and devise the said one half of my said Plantation of Stonefield as afore- 
said to her third daughter and to the heirs of lier body lawfully begotten 
and in like manner as aforesaid I give bequeath and devise my said 
Plantation of Stoneheld that is the aforesaid one half of my Plantation 
of btonefield being divided quantity and quality I give and bequeath it 
in like manner as aforesaid to the oldest surviving child of my daughter 
Margaret Moffat and to the heirs of its body lawfully begotten forever 
And It is my Will still that the Male child inherit before the female 

But if all the children that my daughter Margaret Moffat shall 
have die without issue lawfully begotten then I give and bequeath mv 
whole Plantation of Stonefield to my grandson John Galatian and to the 
heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever But if he dies without issue 
lawfully begotten, then I give and bequeath my whole Plantation of 
btoneheld to my grandson David Galatian and to the heirs of his body 
lawfully begotten and if he dies Without lawful issue then I give my 
Plantation of Stonefield to the oldest surviving child of my dau"-hter 
Hannah Galatian and it is my Will that the Male child shall "still inherit 
before the female. 

-Also, I give and bequeath to the oldest son of my daughter Mar- 
garet Moffat my Negro-Boy Peter and to the heirs of his body forever 
But if he dies without lawfull issue then I give him to the second son 
of my daughter Margaret Moffat and to the heirs of his body lawfully 
begotten, and if he dies without lawfull issue, then I give him to the 
third child of my daughter Margaret Moffat. 

"And I_ make, constitute and ordain Mr. Jacobus Brnyn of Shaug- 
ham_ and Michael Jaction of Goshen Esqrs and my son in law John Moffat, 
minister of the Gospel at the Wallkill, my only and sole executors of 
this my last will and testament in trust for the intent and purposes in 
fhis my last will contained, and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and 
disanul all and every other former testaments, wills legacies and ex- 
ecutors by me in any ways before this time named, willed and bcquenthed 
—ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and tes- 
tament. 

"In witness whereof I the said John Little have to this my last 
Will and Testament set my hand and seal the day And year first within 
written 

Jon. Little (L. S.) 

"Signed, sealed and delivered, published, pronounced and declared by 
the said John Little as and for his last Will and Testament in the 
presence of us who were present at the signing and sealing thereof. 
The words [Heir] in the tenth line, and the word [begotten] in the 
Eleventh line and the words [shall have] in the twenty third line 
[dies and Issue] in the thirty fifth line of the second page have been 
all interlined before the signing sealing and delivery of these presents. 

AllExander Kidd, 
James Hunter, 
John Whaerey. 



PART V. 



The family during the Revolution. 

NONE of John Moffat's descendants served in the con- 
tinental army during the Revolutionary War. Of the 
three sons, John Little (born 1753) and William (born 
1755) were old enough to have served from the commencement; 
and Samuel (born 1761) was old enough to have served during 
the later years of the war. But their tastes and their daily 
pursuits, whatever those pursuits may have been, were evidently 
such as to lead them in other paths, and the military service of all 
three seems to have been confined to that which was afforded 
them as officers in the "Association of Exempts" of New 
Windsor Precinct. 

Early in the war, the legislature of New York passed an 
act (Laws 1778, chap. 33) for the establishment of the militia 
of the State on what was conceived to be an effective basis. After 
a preamble reading as follows : 

"Whereas it is become the duty of the legislature of the State to put 
the militia thereof on such an establishment as will most effectually en- 
courage a martial spirit among the people; provide for the internal and 
external security of the State ; and enable it most vigorously to co-operate 
with the other United States in a cause no less noble and exalted than 
the defence of the common rights and liberties of America against hostile 
tyranny and oppression," 

this measure enacted that every able bodied male person (Indians 
and slaves excepted) between 16 and 50 years of age should im- 
mediately tender himself for enrolment as of the militia of the 
"beat" wherein he should reside. 

Each person so enrolled was required, within twenty days 
after his enrolment, to provide himself at his own expense "with 

a good musket or firelock fit for service, a sufficient bayonet with a good 
belt, a pouch or cartouch box containing not less than sixteen cartridges 
suited to the bore of the musket or firelock, each cartridge containing a 
proper quantity of powder and ball, or, in lieu of such pouch or cartouch 
box and cartridges, with a quantity of powder and ball, respectively dis- 
posed of in a powder horn and shot bag, and wadding, equivalent to such 
cartridges, and two spare flints, a blanket and a knapsack, and [to] appear, 

54 



During the Revolution. 55 



so armed, accoutred and provided when called out to exercise or duty 
as hereinafter directed, except that, when called out to exercise only 
he may appear without blanket or knapsack," etc. 

If any one should be too poor to equip himself as provided in 
the act, the cost of his equipment was to be provided, first, out of 
the fines levied in the regiment to which he belonged and if that 
fund should be insufficient then out of the "public magazines of 
stores of this State," 

The act then proceeded to organize the militia as follows : 
A brigadier general for each county of the State, having the 
"rank, authority and command in the militia of the State like as 
a brigadier general in the army of the United States of America," 
except that, unless in the field, his command should not extend 
beyond his own brigade. 

Instead of brigadier generals, "colonels-commandant" could 
be appointed "by and with the consent and advice of the council 
of appointment," with like rank and authority. 

Each regiment was to be commanded by one colonel, one 
lieutenant colonel and one major, provision being made for two 
majors in case of necessity. 

Each company was to be officered by one captain, one first 
lieutenant, one second lieutenant and one ensign, — all as com- 
missioned officers, — and by four "sergeants," four corporals, one 
drummer and one fifer, to be appointed by the captain or other 
commanding officer of the company. 

The stafif of each regiment was to consist of one adjutant 
and one quarter master, each ranking as first lieutenant. 

And there were other provisions of the act as to "troops 
of horse" and "companies of grenadiers." 

The act further provided that "on every emergency of a sud- 
den invasion by the enemy or insurrection within this State," the 
commanding officer of any brigade, regiment or company, as the 
case might be, should immediately call out his command, each 
one so called out to receive pay and rations "according to the 
continental establishment," except that no member of the militia 
could be required to do duty out of the State for more than forty 
days. 



56 During the Revolution. 



The act next provided for the formation of what were called 
''Associations of Exempts," as follows: 

(i) All persons under the age of 55 years who had held 
civil or military commissions and were not or should not be 
reappointed to their respective ranks of office; and (2) all other 
- persons between the ages of 16 and 55 years, who might associate 
themselves as below, were to be exempted from serving as part 
of the enrolled militia of the State, if within eight weeks after 
the passage of the act they formed themselves into "voluntary 
"associated regiments or companies, according to their number 
"in their respective counties, and recommended those whom they 
"would have as their officers." The act provided that upon such 
recommendation the governor or commander in chief for the time 
being should, with the advice of the council of appointment, 
issue commissions accordingly. 

"The substance of such association," the act declares "shall 
be that the associators will severally on all occasions obey the 
orders of their respective commanding officers and will in cases 
of invasion or incursions of the enemy or insurrections, march to 
repel the enemy or suppress such insurrection, in like manner as 
the enrolled militia are compelled to do : So as that they shall not 
when called out in detachments be annexed to any other regiment 
or company or be under the immediate command of any other 
than their own officers." 

By chapter 13 of the Laws of 1779, passed October 9th, 1779, 
it was provided that instead of limiting the service of militiamen 
out of the State to forty days, as theretofore, they might be 
required to serve out of the State for as much as three months, 
and that associated exempts might also be called into actual ser- 
vice. The act read in part as follows : 

"Whereas the commander-in-chief" (that is, of the militia of the 
State) "may soon judge it proper to order a great part of the mi itia 
to take the field for actual service * * * the commander-in-chief shall 
be authorized to call into actual service such proportion of the corps ot 
associated exempts as he deem to be necessary." 



During- the Revolution. 57 



In 1780. as the troubles thickened, another act was passed 
(Laws 1780, chap. 55) which reorganized the militia in many 
particulars. It commenced with solemn preambles, as follows : 

"Whereas the vvisdom and experience of ages point out a well 
regulated mihtia as the only secure means for defending a State against 
external mvasions, and mternal commotions and insurrections 
_ And zvhereas this, and the other United States of America, are now 
invaded by foreign enemies, and the safety of this State may be endangered 
-by intestine commotions and insurrections," 

and. after providing for sundry changes in the rank and authority 
of officers, enacted that the commander-in-chief for the tiine being 
should have power and authority from time to time, in his dis- 
cretion, 

"to order out the whole or any part of the associated exempts and enrolled 
mihtia of the State into actual service, not only for the defence of this 
State, but to give assistance to any other of the United States, or to rein- 
force the army of the United States, or any part thereof; and the asso- 
ciated exempts shall be called out in rotation so as to do their equal 
proportion of duty with the enrolled militia, as nearly as may be * * * 
and to cause each of them to march out of this State for either of said 
purposes, 

provided they should not be required to do duty out of the State 
for more than forty days at anv one time. 

The Associated Exempts, as such, seem to have passed out 
of existence by 1786. In an act entitled: An act to regulate the 
Militia, passed on April 4th of that year (Laws 1786, chap. 25), 
no reference was made to the exempts, and all prior acts relating 
to the militia were repealed. The act of 1786 ordained that each 
company of militia should have not less than 65 privates; that 
each regiment should be commanded by a lieutenant colonel and 
have two majors; and that the regimental staff should consist 
of one adjutant, one quartermaster and one paymaster, all to 
rank as lieutenants, and one surgeon and one surgeon's mate. 

The uniforms of officers were also prescribed, as follows : 

For general officers : dark blue coats with buff facings, lin- 
ings, collars and cuffs ; yellow buttons ; buff underclothes. 

For regimental officers of infantry: dark blue coats with 
white linings, collars and cuffs; white buttons; white under- 
clothes. 

For non-commissioned officers and privates of infantry : dark 
blue coats with white lining, collars and cuffs ; white underclothes. 



58 During the Revolution. 



And other uniforms were prescribed for mounted and other 
branches of the miUtia. 

With this general statement of the law before us, we can 
read more understandingly the following extract from the 
"Clinton Papers," vol. Ill, page 448 : 



"At a meeting of the Exempts of New Windsor Precinct, the nth 
day of June, 1778, agreeable to an Act of the Legislature for the State 
of New York directing that all the Exempts from Sixteen to Fifty-five 
years of age shall associate themselves into Companies, we the Sub- 
scribers, being met agreeable to said act, do recommend Matthew Du- 
Bois for Captain, James Burnet for first Lieutenant, and John L. Moffat 
for second Lieutenant, Praying that his Excellency, the Governor of the 
State of New York, would be pleased to send Commissions to the afore- 
said persons." 

This paper bore date June 25, 1778, and was signed by 

thirty-five persons ; and the commissions issued as recommended 

(New York in the Revolution, vol. i, page 303, Leg. Pap. 1065, 

pp. 5» 6). 

What civil or mihtary commission John Little Moffat had 
held that entitled him to membership in the Exempts as early as 
1778, does not appear. Later, according to Ruttenber's History 
of Orange County (page 235), he was commissioner of highways 
and town clerk of New Windsor, — that is, in 1781, 1782 and 
1783; and his brother William was Commissioner of highways 
in the same town in 1796 (page 236) ; and his brother Samuel 
in 1797, 1798 and 1799 (page 245) ; but such service would 
hardly entitle him to membership in the Exempts in 1778. 

As to the service he performed, the records are meager. In 
vol. II of the "Clinton Papers." page 95, it is stated that "Lieu- 
tenant Moffat" sat on a court martial at Fort Montgomery, July 
loth, 1777. This may have been he, but was more probably 
Thomas Moffat, a descendant of Samuel Moffat of Blagg's Clove, 
who rose to distinction in the war and became a member of the 
Order of the Cincinnati. 

In vol. Ill of Gov. Clinton's Papers, at page 573, appears 
an order from the Governor to General Ten Broeck, under date 
of July 21, 1778, that the regiments of militia in Ulster and 
Orange counties should make the necessary arrangements for 
the defence of the western frontiers of those counties. 

Again, at page 707. Gov. Clinton writes to Gen'l Ten Broeck 
on August 31, 1778, that General Washington had asked for 



During the Revolution. 59 



1,000 of the militia to strengthen the posts in the Highlands, not- 
withstanding that Ulster County had for some time past had 320 
of its militia on its frontiers, and Orange County a like number. 

At page 718 is the record of a general court martial held 
at Goshen on August 25, 1778, to try Capt. Benjamin Vail of 
Col. McClaghrey's regiment, charged with refusing to march to 
Fort Arnold when ordered. The court consisted of Lieut. Col. 
Tusten president, two majors and eleven captains. Lieut. John 
L. 'Moffat was appointed to act as Judge Advocate and was 
duly sworn. The court found the prisoner guilty and ordered 
him to pay a fine of $50, upon payment of which he was to be 
restored to his place of honor and trust. And other prisoners 
were tried. 

In vol. V of the "Clinton Papers," at page 602, Col. Mc- 
Claghrey's regiment was ordered to rendezvous in 1780 at Pien- 
pack, for the defence of the frontier. 

And that is all the evidence we have of service, commission 
or rank, until the reorganization of the militia in 1786. From 
the "Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment," 1783- 
1821, we find that the militia of Orange County was arranged 
into one brigade on September 26, 1786. In Col. Moses Hetf eld's 
regiment, Reuben Hopkins was Major No. i ; John L. Moffat 
Major No. 2; and Joseph Denton Ensign No. 3 (vol. i, page 
81). Jacob Wright was brigade inspector, and George Fleming 
was Captain No. i of the artillery company belonging to said 
brigade (ibid, page 83). 

On March 12, 1788, John Wood was appointed second 
major, vice John L. Moffat deceased (ibid, page 142). 

On March 14, 1787, Samuel Moffat was appointed captain 
in the same regiment (vol. i, p. 121) ; but we do not know 
whether this was the so-called "Stonefield Sam,"'s son of Rev. 
John Moffat, or. as seems more probable. Samuel (born 1744) 
son of Samuel Moffat of Blagg's Clove. On May 5, 1789, 
Theophilus Howell was appointed captain vice Samuel Moffat, 
resigned. 

And there the evidence of the military service of these of 
our forbears ends. 



"So called, as tradition has it, to distinguish him from the Samuel Moffats, 
then living, of different generations, in the Blagg's Clove line. 



PART VI. 



The Blagg's Clove Moffats. 

THE similarity of christian names among some of the 
descendants of Rev. John Moffat, on the one hand, and of 
Samuel Moffat, of Blagg's Clove, on the other hand, tends 
to a partial confusion of the two families, that may be avoided 
by reference to the following table of descent (for three genera- 
tions) from Samuel Moffat of Blagg's Clove. *^ 

Samuel Moffat, b Ballylig, co. Antrim, "Kingdom" of 
Ireland, i8 July, 1704; d Blagg's Clove, Orange County, 
N. Y., 17 May, 1787; m Woodbridge, N. J., 5 June, 
1735, Anne Gregg h. Sluh Hull, co. Fermanaugh, 
"Kingdom" of Ireland, 12 June 1716; d Blagg's Clove, 
Orange County, N. Y., 19 December, 1794. 
(i) William Moffat 

(2) Jane Moffat m Isaac Hodge 

(3) Bliaaheth Moffat m John Nicholson 

(4) Thomas Moffat 

(5) Samuel Moffat 

(6) Margaret Moffat 

(7) John Moffat 

(8) Anna Moffat (1751-1835) m John Denniston, 21 

April, 1774. Had four children, and maybe 
more. 

(9) Mary Moffat m Phineas Helm, 24 August 1775. 

Had six children 

(10) Blinor Moffat m Hugh Turner, 16 February, 

1788. Had several children. 

(11) Isaac Moffat 

(12) Catherine Moffat (1758-1823) m Daniel Clem- 

ence, 19 June 1788. Had five children 



"For the information here given, the writer is indebted to Rev. T. Clemence 
Moffatt of Clyde, Kansas, a descendant of Samuel Moffat of Blagg's Clove. 

60 



The Blagg's Clove Moffats. 61 



I. William Moffat ( 1 737-1810) m, Blagg's Clove. 30 Novem- 
ber, 1780, Mary Scott (1754-1835) 

(13) Thomas Moffat (1781-1827) m Blagg's Clove 

18 May, 1809, Deborah Helm. Had eight 
children 

(14) Elinor Moffat (1783-1788) 

(15) Anne Moffat (1786-1875) m 2 January, 1812, 

John Clemence. No issue 

(16) Catherine Moffat (1789-1865) m Blooming 

Grove, Orange County, N. Y., 5 January, 
1819, Ebenezer Colby. No issue 

4. Major Thomas Moffat (1742-1805) m October, 1773, 
Susanna Howell 

(17) Blimheth Moffat {177 A— ) ^'^ Townsend. 

Had seven children and maybe more 

(18) Susanna Moffat (i775— ) *" ^5 August, 

1802, David Webb 

(19) Hezekiah Moffat (1778-1827) m Sarah Carpen- 

ter. Had ten children. 

(20) Anne Moffat (i779 — ) 

(21) Catherine Moffat (1782-1839) m 21 August, 

1803, Michael Denton. Had twelve children. 

5. Samuel Moffat (1744-1807) m 14 January, 1772, Hannah 
Chandler 

(22) Nathaniel Moffat (1773-1826) m about 1795 

Elizabeth Tuthill. Had four children 

(23) Samuel Moffat (i 776-1 851) m about 1799 

Bethiah Reed. Had five children 

(24) David Halliday Moffat (1780-1863) m 13 De- 

cember, 1 82 1, Eleanor Louisa Cutter Had 
four children 

(25) Joseph Moffat (1782-1868) m (i) 1808 Cur- 

rence Bostwick; m (2) 26 December, 1828. 
Hannah Brewster. Had four children 

(26) John Chandler Moffat (i 788-181 1) No issue. 



62 The Blagg's Clove Moffats. 



6. Margaret Moffat m (i) David Halliday, m (2) 26 Octo- 

ber, 1780, James Fulton. Had children by both hus- 
bands. 

7. John Moffat (1749-1818) m 14 April, 1777, Abigail 

Chandler. 
. (27) William Moffat (1779-1827) m Elizabeth Scott. 

Had four children 

(28) Phebe Moffat (1780-1829) m 1805 Nathaniel 

Snedecor. Had seven sons. 

(29) Stephen Moffat (1783- 1830) No issue 

(30) Abigail Moffat ( -1850) No issue 

(31) John Moffat (1787-1863) m 1818 Sophia 

Halsey. Had six children 

(32) Nathaniel Moffat (1787-1787) A twin brother 

of No. 31 

II. Isaac Moffat (1756-1825) m 17 May, 1781, Nancy Scott. 

(33) Jane Moffat (1782-1862) m 1802 Benjamin 

Howell. Had five children. 

(34) Francis Moffat (1783-1820) m 1808 Hannah 

Simonson. Had one child. 

(35) Nathan Moffat (1784-1825) m 2 June, 1812, 

Ruth Peck. Had five children. 

(36) William S. Moffat (i 786-181 1). No issue 

(37) Mary Moffat (1787-1845) m 1825 Robert 

Moore. No issue. 

(38) Jsaac Moffat (1789-1857) m 1818, Mary Pop- 

pino. Had ten children 

(39) David Wilson Moffat (1781-1864) m 1818 

Martha Moore. Had six children 

(40) Eleanor Moffat (1793-1864) ni 1835 Nathaniel 

Denniston. Had one son 

(41) George Moffat (1795-1795) 



PART VII. 



Notes concerning some of the descendants. 

JOHN LITTLE MOFFAT (No. 2 below) died at the age 
of thirty-four years on February 10, 1788. His son, John 
Little Moffat (No. 14 below), was born two days later, 
and his wife, Mary Yelverton Moffat, died one week after her 
husband's death, — on February 17, 1788; and the father. Rev. 
John Moffat, died on April 22, 1788, but little more than two 
months later. 

John Little Moffat (No. 2 below) was described by his sister, 
Mrs. Howe (No. 9 below) as tall, very handsome, and devoted 
to athletics, excelling in all competitions as a rider, swimmer, 
jumper and wrestler. She wrote that he would walk erect under 
a rope stretched across poles and then run and leap across the 
rope He was a surveyor by occupation and with Simeon De 
Witt, a cousin of DeWitt Clinton, is said to have laid out var- 
ious townships in Western New York, then in process of 
development. It was on one of these surveying- trips in the 
summer of 1787, on an extrem.ely hot day, so the story runs, 
that he and DeWitt came to a stream crossed by a bridge. De- 
Witt took the bridge but Moffat plunged into the stream for a 
cooling, and remained in his wet clothing through the rest of 
the day. The result was a heavy cold which developed into con- 
sumption, and he died the following" February. 

His wife was well-to-do in her own right, and John Little 
Moffat seems to have been reasonably successful during the few 
years of his manhood. From the fact that his first two children, 
born respectively in 1780 and 1782, were baptised at the Bethle- 
hem church, it is possible that he lived during the first three or 
four years of his married life at or near Little Britain. He lived 
at Goshen during the later years of his life, owning a large 
house there which subsequently became the summer seat of 
Ogden Hoffman of New York City. Upon his death the son, 
John Little Moffat, was taken to Stonefield and lived there with 
his grandmother. Rev. John Moffat's widow, until her death in 
1800. 

63 



64 John Little Mofifat. 

Upon attaining his majority, John Little Moffat executed and 
deHvered to his parents a lease of Stonefield, at a nominal rental, 
for the term of their natural lives. - The lease is as follows : 

"This Indenture made the Eighth Day of December in the year of 
our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy four Between John 
Little Moffat of Stonefield in the Precinct of New^ Windsor in the County 
of Ulster in the Province of New York yeoman of the one part And the 
Reverend John Moffat and Margaret his wife, father and Mother of the 
said John Little Moft'it, of the same place, of the Other part, 

WITNESSETH that the said John Little Moffat for and in Considera- 
tion of the Natural Love and Affection which he hath and Beareth unto 
the said John Moffat and Margaret his Wife and for Divers other Good 
Causes and Valuable Considerations him thereunto Moving and for the 
Better Maintenance and Livelyhood of them the said John Moffat and 
Margaret his Wife, Hath Demised Granted and to farm Letten and by 
these Presents Doth Demise Grant and to farm Let unto the said John 
Moffat and Margaret his wife All that Lott Piece or parcel of Land 
being Part of a Certain Tract of one thousand acres of Land, Called 
Stonefield, Beginning at a white Oak tree Marked with three Notches 
on four sides Standing in the South Westerly Corner of said Tract and 
in the South Easterly corner of a Tract of Land Granted to Cornelius 
Low and Company And Runs thence South seventy Nine Degrees East 
fifty three Chains to a heap of stones near a white oak sapling marked 
on four sides in the southerly Bounds of the Tract thence North five 
Degrees East as the Compass now points Seventy one Chains to the 
Line of the Said Tract of Land Granted to Cornelius Low and Company 
And thence along the Said Line South West Eighty seven Chains to the 
place of beginning Containing About one hundred and Ninety Acres of 
Land be the same more or less with all and singular the Houses Build- 
ings fences Gardens Lands Meadows — Pastures Feedings Trees Woods 
Underwoods Ways Paths waters Water Courses Easements Profits Com- 
modities Advantages and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Lot 
piece or parcel of Land Belonging or in any wise Appertaining, 

To Have and to Hold the Said Lott Piece or Parcel of Land and 
Premises, Above Mentioned with the Appurtenances unto the Said John 
Moffat and Margaret his wife their Heirs Executors Administrators and 
Assigns from the Day of the Date thereof for and During the Natural 
Lives of the said John Moffat and Margaret his wife, Yielding and Paying 
therefor Yearly During their Natural Lives unto the said John Little 
Moffat his Heirs and Assigns the Yearly Rent of One Ear Corn in and 
upon the first Day of December Yearly During their Natural Lives if 
the same shall be Lawfully Demanded Clear of and over above All 
Taxes Rates and Payments whatsoever 

And the said John Little Moffat for himself his Heirs and Assigns 
Doth Covenant and grant to and with the said John Moffat and Margaret 
his wife their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns that they the 
said John Moffat and Margaret his Wife their Heirs Executors Adminis- 
trators and Assigns shall and may by and under the Yearly Rent before 
Reserved and Contained Peaceably and Quietly Have, hold, Occupy, 
Possess and Enjoy All and singular the said Lot Piece or Parcel of 
Land and Premises above mentioned with Appurtenances for and During 
their Natural Lives without the Let Trouble Hindrance Molestation In- 
terruption and Denial of him the said John Little Moffat his Heirs and 
Assigns or any other Person or Persons claiming or to Claim by from or 
under him. 



William and Samuel Moffat. 65 



In Witness whereof the Parties first above Named have to these 
Present Indentures Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day 
and Year Above Written — 

Margaret (L. S.) Mofeat John (L. S.) Moffat 

John Little (L. S.) Moffat 

Endorsed: — 

Memorandum that on the Day of December in 
the Year of our Lord one thousand seven 
hundred and seventy four, full Possession 
and seisin was had and taken of the within 
Lot piece or Parcel of Land and Premises 
within Granted by John Little Moffat one of 
the parties within named and by him De- 
livered over unto John Moffat and Margaret 
his wife within Named, To Hold During 
their Natural lives according to the Con- 
tents of the within Written Indenture in the 
presence of 



.Sealed and Delivered 
^in the Presence of 

James Clinton 
Mary Clinton 



Of William Moffat (No. 3 below) the writer knows little. 
His name appears in the New York City directory of 1820, no 
occupation stated, and his address is given at the corner of 
Church and Walker Streets. His wife, Eunice Youngs,'7 died 
December 10, 1799, and his will was proved January 3, 1821.'^ 
In this will, executed under date of April 13, 1820, he mentions 
a wife "Rhoda," and devises to his grandson, William B. Moffat, 
(then less than two years of age) the house and lot at the comer 
of Walker and Church Streets which he had bought, according 
to the real estate records of New York county, on September 
25, 1813.^9 

Samuel Moffat (No. 6 below) left Orange County in 
1806, and settled in Tompkins County. New York. He formed a 
partnership with Robert Tenant Shaw at a place then called 
"Rogues Harbor," but now known as Libertyville, and in 1814 
married his partner's sister, Ann Shaw. The records of some of 
Samuel Moffat's descendants state that the Shaws came from 
near Belfast, county Antrim, Ireland, and were born of English 



"Eunice Youngs was the daughter of Henry Youngs of Orange County, N. Y., 
and Abigail Horton, daughter of Barnabas Horton (Independent Republican of 
27 December, 1904). 

"New York Surrogate's Office, Liber 56 of Wills, page 240. 

"New York Register's Office, Liber 103 of Deeds, page 437- 



66 Margaret Moffat Wright. 

parents. On August 14, 181 7, according to a record in his own 
handwriting, Samuel Moffat left Robert Shaw's house in Lansing, 
and moved to Columbia Village, Dryden. There he started a 
lumber mill in the midst of what was at that time a thickly tim- 
bered region of pine, and seems to have prospered quickly. The 
real estate records of the county show that he acquired a number 
of farms, as time went on, some lying at a considerable distance 
from his home, and papers that have come down into the keeping 
of his descendants bear evidence to his having been in effect, 
though not in name, the local banker so far as the lending of 
money to others was concerned. He seems to have been a man 
of wide sympathies and helpful to those less fortunate than he. 
He was among the first of the advocates of total abstinence, and 
some of his descendants point with pride to the fact that of the 
five sons bom to him, none ever touched either liquor or tobacco. 

Margaret Moffat (No. 4 below), the oldest of the five 
daughters of Rev. John Moffat, married Jacob Wright, but died 
without issue. Her husband was a resident of Jamaica, New 
York, at the outbreak of the Revolution, and when a company of 
minute men was raised in Queens County in 1775 "for the defense 
of the Hberties of the American Colonies/' he was chosen first 
lieutenant of the company, and was soon acting as captain in Col. 
John Lasher's regiment. On July i, 1776, Gen. John Morin 
Scott wrote as follows, in endorsement of his application for the 
position of captain "in the new arrangement" : 

"Capt. Wright, late of Lasher's Regiment in my brigade,^ has dis- 
tinguished himself as much by his cool intrepid spirit as by his zealous 
attachment to the American cause, and by his modest, discreet and pru- 
dent behavior. I strongly recommend him as a man who will do honor 
to his Country." 

On November 21, 1776, he was appointed captain in the 2nd 
New York Regiment, Col. Philip Van Cortlandt commanding, 
and continued until honorably mustered out in 1782. He joined 
the New York Society of the Cincinnati, and served as a mem- 
ber of its Standing Committee ; and after his death his widow 
received aid from the society's fund.^" 



"Large Book of the Cincinnati, published 1886, pages 352-353. 



Marg-aret Moffat Wright. 67 



In Ruttenber's History of Orange County,^' at page 143, it 
is said : "When, in the Spring of 1779, Washington was thrown 
on the defensive, he concentrated the continental army in the 
Highlands and in Smith's Clove, and established his headquarters 
in the William Ellison house on the hill immediately south of 
the village of New Windsor." It was while he was here that he 
sent Wayne to attack Stony Point. After the surrender at 
Yorktown, Ruttenber continues, the main portion of the Amer- 
ican army returned to the Hudson River, and Washington made 
his headquarters at the Hasbrouck house in Newburgh. Part of 
the army, including among others Philip Van Cortlandt's regi- 
ment, were stationed for the winter in huts at New Windsor ; and 
we can imagine that it was while here that Capt. Wright became 
acquainted with Margaret Moffat, whom he subsequently mar- 
ried. Curiously enough, a diligent search of public and church 
records, as well as of the papers held in different branches of 
the family which have been opened to the writer's perusal, has 
failed to disclose not only the date of this marriage but also 
the date of Capt. Wright's birth or that of his death or that of 
his v/idow's death. 

The records of the Goshen (Orange County) Presbyterian 
church are evidence of the fact that both Jacob Wright and 
Margaret, his wife, were members of that church on June 12. 
1785, and deeds recorded in Albany county in 1789, 1793, 1794 
and 1795, recite them both as "of Albany" during those years; 
and in 1798 Capt. Wright was elected President of the Albany 
Mechanics Society.^^ 

The New York city directories of 1801 to 1804 record a 
Jacob Wright as a customs officer, with residence at 107 Liberty 
Street ; but whether this is the Capt. Wright who married Mar- 
garet Moffat and lived in Albany until 1798, if not later, we have 
absolutely no knowledge and as little upon which to base conjec- 
ture. Capt. Wright was evidently an interesting man, and it is 
unfortunate that we know so little about him. 



"Published at Newburgh. N. Y., in 1875. 
**ALBANy Gazette of Friday, February 9th, 1798. 



68 Mary Moffat Carpenter. 

Mary Moffat (No. 5 below) married Anthony Carpenter 
when nearly thirty years of age. Her marriage is chronicled 
thus in the New York Daii,y Advertiser of Wednesday, Janu- 
ary 27, 1789: 

"Married, at Little Britain, Orange County, on the 15th inst., 
Mr. Anthony Carpenter of Goshen to the amiable Miss Mary Moffat, 
daughter of the late Rev. John Moffat of the former place," 

and notice of her death was published in the New York Evening 
Post of Friday, September 26, 1823, as follows: 

"Died, at Galen, Seneca County, N. Y., on the 25th ult., of bilious 
remittent fever, Mrs. Mary Carpenter wife of Anthony Carpenter and 
daughter of the late Rev'd John Moffat of Orange County in the sSth^s 
year of her age. In her life was displayed the character and in her 
death the triumph of the christian. 'I heard a voice from heaven say- 
ing write henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Yea, saith 
the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow 
them.' " 

The records of the Goshen Presbyterian church recite the 
baptism of two children. John Carpenter (stated to have been 
baptized Januar}^ 31, 1790, which is possibly an error, as the date 
of birth inscribed on his gravestone in the burial ground of the 
old Dutch Church at New Utrecht is April 17, 1791), and George 
Carpenter, born September 16, 1793, and baptized August 28, 
1796. The records of some of the descendants of the son, John 
Carpenter, give the name of the second child as "Anthony," 
rather than "George ;" and it is so stated in the Carpenter 
Genealogy published by A. B. Carpenter in 1898. It would 
seem more probable, with the elder child named after the 
mother's father, that the second child should be named for the 
father's father, rather than by a name which had not, up to that 
time, been borne by any one in either the Carpenter or Moffat 
families, so far as the writer has been able to discover. What- 
ever the child's name, however, it seems to have died young ; for 
no further trace of it has rewarded the writer's extremely diligent 
search. 

Anthony Carpenter, whom Mary Moffat married, seems to 
have been a man of substance and of influence in the communitv 
in which he lived. He had served as a soldier from Orange 



"^One of the courtesies of the day. She was really in the (55th year of her age. 



Frances Moffat Pierson. 69 



County during the Revolutionary War, and at its close bought 
the farm, formerly belonging to Gideon Youngs, at Hampton- 
burgh, near Goshen. 

When Rev. John Moffat's widow died in 1800. he took the 
orphan grandson, John Little Moffat, to live with him. He was 
the son of Anthony Carpenter and Abigail his wife, who had 
moved, prior to 1760,^4 from New Haven, Connecticut, to Goshen, 
New York. The father, Anthony, died June 29, 1760, and the 
mother, Abigail. July 23, 1760.^3 The husband of Mary Moffat 
was the third of four children, the oldest being Elizabeth, who, on 
February 28, 1768, married Hon. Nathaniel Rogers of Exeter. 
N. H., resided in Boston, and had twelve children; the second, 
Helena, of whom the writer has no information ; and the youngest, 
Mary, who died November 12, 1760.24 All the children seem to 
have been under age at the time of their parents' deaths.^^ 

Frances Moffat (No. 7 below) married Josiah Pierson in 
1788. The writer has been able to gather little information of 
either from any of their numerous descendants. Josiah 
Pierson was the son of Silas Pierson who came from Long Island 
to what now is Hamptonburgh in Orange County, in 1749. Of 
the old Pierson homestead, the late George Pierson of Campbell 
Hall wrote an interesting account in 1906, which was published 
in the Indepe;ndent Republican of Friday May 17, 1907. It 
reads in part as follows : 

"The eastern half of that house, in which I was born on the 
first day of January, 1824, is built of squared logs, up to the 
eaves. When built, and by whom, is not known. I remember 
hearing some one ask my father, if he knew how old it was. He 
said he did not, that it was on the place when his grandfather, 
Silas Pierson, came from Long Island in 1749, and that it was 
nearly, if not quite, as old as the William Bull stone house, which 
was built in 1727. The western half is framed and was built by 
William Pierson about 1796, when both parts were covered with 
shingles. These shingles never were painted, or had anything 



**Carpenter Genealogy by A. B. Carpenter, 1898. 

^New Haven (Conn.) Birth and Marriage records. 

^°New Haven Probate Records, vol. IX, pages 409, 488. 



/O Frances Moffat Pierson. 

put on to preserve them, and they have been worn through in so 
many places, that siding has been put on to preserve the building, 
and to make it more comfortable. 

"In building the chimney in the west end, a stick of timber 
was placed across the front, over the fireplace, which came very 
near causing the house to be destroyed by fire. On New Year's 
night, 183 1, there was a gathering of the neighborhood school 
children, what was called in those days a 'trundlebed party.' The 
evening was spent in games and plays, such as 'Button, button,' 
'Old Quaker,' Tt hails, and it rains, and it's cold stormy weather,' 
and others, all good old fashioned kissing games, with no fear 
of germs or bacteria. It being Saturday night, the company 
broke up in good season, the coals in the large fireplace were 
carefully covered with ashes, and everything seemed all right. 
About 4 o'clock a. m., however, the hired men sleeping in the 
attic of the log part were awakened by smoke, and seeing a bright 
light, through the cracks of the partitions, gave the alarm of fire. 
It was none too soon, as the flames reached nearly to the roof. 
My father jumped out of bed (no pajamas), and taking a pail of 
water, which was on a table in the room, ran across the hall, and 
opening the door of the burning room, dashed it in, closing the 
door immediately. A bucket brigade was formed, from the well, 
which was only a few feet from the door, and in about an hour, 
the fire was entirely extinguished. 

"It originated in the stick of timber over the fireplace above 
spoken of, and this timber was burned in two and the woodwork 
and furniture in the room badly damaged. 

"This old log house was the home of those who were willing 
to give, and did give, their time and services to defend their 
homes and aiding the Colonies in their struggle against the un- 
just demands of Great Britain. On the 8th day of July, 1760, 
James DeLancey, Esq., 'His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor and 
Commander-in-Chief, in and over the Province of New York, and 
the Territories depending thereon,' signed a commission, appoint- 
ing Silas Pierson to be captain of 'the company of militia foot 
lately commanded by and in the room of John Bull, Esq., in the 
Northern Regiment of the County of Orange whereof Benjamin 
Thurston, Esq., is colonel' This was near the close of the French 
and Indian war, when England had determined to destroy the 



Frances Moffat Pierson. 71 



power of France in America. The militia was liable to be called 
out at any time, to defend the settlements against the attacks of 
the Indians and aveng-e their wrongs. The Indians from the 
West had committed many barbarities in Orange and Ulster 
Counties. What is now a large part of Orange County was 
Ulster then. 

_ "In 1775, Silas Pierson was captain in Col. Jesse Woodhull's 
regiment. The officers under his command were Joshua Brown, 
1st Lieutenant; Daniel Reeve, 2d Lieutenant; Phineas Heard 
(the father of the late John J. Heard, of Goshen) . Ensign. Later 
on he was captain of a light horse company in the Revolution. 
Silas Pierson and Silas Pierson, Jr., the great-grandfather of 
Editor Drake, were among the many signers of the pledge in the 
Cornwall precinct in which they declared that they 'would never 
become slaves,' and 'would aid the Continental Congress in oppos- 
ing the arbitrary acts of the British Parliament.' 

"Josiah Pierson, my grandfather, was a private in Col. |esse 
Woodhull's regiment, and in 1777, at the age of sixteen, went 
with that regiment, under the command of -Major Zachariah Du- 
Bois. to assist in the defence of Fort Montgomery. 

"There were no Tories in that log cabin, although there 
were Tories in the neighborhood. Claudius Smith was an 
occasional visitor at the house not far distant where John B. 
Harlow now lives, and at the time of making such visits his horse 
was stabled in the cellar. Gilbert Gerow, the owner in 1838, in 
making some alterations in the house, tore down a large stone 
chimney in the west end of the kitchen. In the rear of the chim- 
ney, in the attic, a recess was found, large enough for six or 
eight persons to be safely hidden. A sufficient space had been 
left between the chimney and the siding, for persons to squeeze in 
and out. 

"On the hillside, about thirty rods west of the old shingle 
house, under the shade of a wide spreading white oak. are the 
graves of Captain Silas Pierson, his youngest son William, and 
his three daughters, Mary, widow of Birdseye Youngs; Sarah, 
and Rachel. Birdseye Youngs was first lieutenant in Captain 
Archibald Little's company, in Col. Jesse Woodhull's regiment. 
Silas Pierson, Jr., married Rachael Bull, and they lived and died 
on the farm where the Hamptonburgh station on the Orange 



7'2 Elizabeth Moffat Roosa. 

County Railroad is located. They were buried on a little rise of 
ground a few rods north of the station, opposite the Hawkins 
burying ground where all the graves were marked with common 
field stones. Years ago, all traces of these graves were obliterated, 
the stones having been removed, the ground ploughed and cul- 
tivated. In making a cut through this knoll when grading for 
the railroad, human bones were found, were shoveled with the 
dirt into the carts, and dumped in the fill where they were making 
the roadbed. 

"Josiah Pierson married Frances Mofifat, a daughter of Rev. 
John Mofifat. About the time of his marriage, he bought a tract 
of six hundred acres of wild woodland, in what is now the town 
of Mount Hope, near Otisville, where they lived, died and were 
buried. Their remains were removed a few years ago to the 
Hillside Cemetery, Middletown. Four hundred acres of this 
tract are now owned and occupied by some of their grandsons." 

Elizabeth Moffat (No. 8 below) married Dr. Cornelius 
Roosa on March 15, 1792, at the New Windsor Church. He was 
a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and in deeds of real estate 
executed by him during the five years following his marriage, he 
described himself as "of Albany" ; but later he lived and practised 
in New York. Their only child, Catherine, died unmarried at the 
home of her cousin, Bezaleel Howe (No. 47 below), at 52 Great 
Jones Street, New York City, on May 27, 1855, in the 62nd 
year of her age. It is from the Roosa family bible, now in the 
possession of Dr. J. F. Howe (No. 169 below), with its earlier 
entries in the handwriting of Rev. John Mofifat's own daughter, 
that the dates of birth are taken of the eight children of the first 
generation in the table that follows. 

Catherine Moffat (No. 9 below) at the age of twenty- 
six years, and in the year 1800, married Major Bezaleel Howe. 
He was a veteran of the revolution, was forty-five years of age 
at the time of the marriage and was a widower with one daughter, 
a little more than eleven years old. Five years later, the daughter, 
at the age of sixteen, married John Guion, of Rye, N. Y., and 
became the mother of a large family. 



Catherine Moffat Howe. 73 



Bezaleel Howe enlisted as a private just before the battle 
of Bunker Hill, at which he was present, and continued in the 
army throughout the war; and he received successively com- 
missions as lieutenant, captain and major, each signed by General 
Washington. He was at the battle of Long Island and was sub- 
sequently taken prisoner by the British, but was exchanged in due 
course. At the close of the revolution he accompanied Gen. 
Anthony Wayne in the Indian wars for about three years, and 
remained in the regular army for six years longer. During the 
last six months of the war of the revolution he was auxiliary 
lieutenant in and commandant of Washington's own body guard ; 
and he was present at the execution of Andre. During a part of 
the time of his service in the body guard he lived as a member 
of Washington's family, as papers preserved by the family bear 
witness ; and he seems to have known, on terms of greater or less 
intimacy, Alexander Hamilton, Gov. George Clinton and other 
leaders of the period. After the war, he was in command for a 
time of the garrison at West Point and upon retiring from the 
service in the late 90's went to New Orleans to estabHsh himself 
in business. He remained there, however, for but a short time, 
and returning to New York received an appointment as Custom 
House inspector at a salary of $1,000 a year,— a position gladly 
filled at that time by many revolutionary officers. Three times 
was he removed, a victim of the spoils system, and as many times 
reappointed; but action was finally taken by Congress making 
provision for the permanent retention of revolutionary officers, 
and Major Howe retained his office until his death. He was one 
of the original members of the Cincinnati and took an interested 
part in its social functions.27 

Anthony Yelverton Moffat (No. 13 below) was the first 
son born to his parents, after the birth of three daughters. His 
father had longed for a son, so the story runs, in order that the 
name John Little Mofifat might be perpetuated; but the baby 
boy was so puny and feeble and death seemed so certain, that it 
was decided to give him the name of his maternal grandfather. 



,. !!^^« circumstances in the life of Major Howe above narrated are taken from 
•A Filial Tribute to the Memory of Rev. Tohn Moffat Howe, M. D." Privatelv 
printed, 1889. The DeVinne Press. "aiciy 



74 Anthony Yelverton Moffat. 

and save his father's name for a future son who might give 
greater promise of Hfe. He was accordingly baptized by the 
minister of the Goshen church when between six and seven weeks 
old (March 5, 1786), and immediately improved in health and 
grew into a strong and sturdy man of vigorous constitution. 
Thus it was that the paternal name was carried on by a younger 
son and his descendants. 

Anthony Moffat followed the sea, and had his first command 
before he was twenty-one years of age. It was while captain of 
a vessel in the merchant marine that he met and married in 
Norfolk on January 15, 1807, — three days before he attained his 
majority, — Sarah Amanda Fims Wirling, one of the two orphan 
daughters of Capt. Robert Wirling. of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 
and Euphemia Patterson, his wife, daughter of Mrs. Janet 
Patterson, of Norfolk, Virginia. The death of Capt. Robert 
Wirling in January, 1800, a prisoner of the French, is told in the 
following letter, — addressed by a friend to the children's grand- 
mother, Mrs. Janet Patterson, — now in the possession of Miss 
Anna Matilda Shatzel (No. 198 below) of Lake City, Minnesota: 

Shelburne ist August 1800 
Dear Madam : 

I beg leave to address you on a subject very unpleasant to me, and 
very, very distressing to you, the Death of my much lamented Friends, 
and your relatives, Captain Wirling and his Son. 

The Armed brig Harlequin, zc/hich our late unfortunate Friend com- 
manded, was captured in October last after a severe Engagement of 
Eight Hours in which he and his son were severely wounded, of which 
they died in Rochford Goal, the January following. 

I have, with Edwd Brinley Esqr and Mr Daniel Walker, admin- 
istered on the estate of Captain Wirling, from the purest of motives 
(that of wishing to make the most of the property of my orphan Friends). 

I request leave to mention to you my Ideas on the means to be 
pursued for the Interest of my young friends — (They are these) that 
the whole of the money that may be raised from the personal property 
of Captn Wirling be put into some public Fund, the principal not to 
be disturbed until they become of age, — the real property to be rented to 
the best advantage, the rent of which and the Interest of the personal 
property to go towards their Education and support. 

They at present live with Mrs. Johnston whose Amiable Manners 
you are well acquainted with, with whom (if their little funds would 
allow) I wish and intreat you to leave, until the Noble principles of 
Virtue, with all its amiable Qualifications, which she daily Impresses on 
their Early minds, be a little more matured. 

I very, very much fear the consequences of removing my little friends 
to an unhealthy Climate, and let me add. Dear Madam, the fatal conse- 
quences that may be dreaded to them left in Norfolk should what we are 



Anthony Yelverton Moffat. 75 



all subject to, Death, snatch you away from them. Here, Madam, they 
have friends who will watch and protect their Innocence and Virtue. 
Allow them, thro me, to offer their Grateful respects to you. 

As soon as an Inventory can be taken and Captain Wirling's Personal 
and real property ascertained, I shall write you. 

I hope to hear from you very shortly, hoping and wishing my Ideas 
in this letter will fully meet your approbation and assistance, 

With friendly esteem 

I am, Dear Madam, 

Your most Obedt Servt. 

Chas. O. McCarthy 
Endorsed: 

To 

Mrs Janet Patterson 

Norfolk 

The two children, notwithstanding the entreaties contained 
in this letter, were taken to Norfolk and cared for by their 
maternal grandmother until their respective marriages, — Amanda 
to Capt. Anthony Moffat and Anne to a Mr. Baker (or Barker) 
of New Orleans. The daughter Anne, so Miss Shatzel informs 
the writer, died in New Orleans without issue. 

The records of Christ Church, of New Brunswick, New 
Jersey, — of which Dr. Lyell (who subsequently became rector of 
Christ Church, in New York City) was then rector. — record the 
dates of births and the date of the baptism (March 15, 181 1) of 
the two children of Anthony Moffat and his first wife, Sarah 
Amanda Fims Wirling; and from such record it may be inferred 
that in 181 1, at any rate, Capt. Moffat lived in New Jersey. The 
marriage, however, did not prove a happy one, and in 18 16 a 
decree of divorce was granted to Capt. Moffat by the then Court 
of Chancery of the State of New York, in the First Circuit. 
Four years later he married, in New York City, Miss Julia Curtis 
a first cousin of Miss Hannah Curtis, whom his brother, John 
Little Moffat had married in 181 1; and by her he had five 
children of whom three attained maturity and married and had 
issue. 

From Februar}^ 8, 1843, to January 28, 1848. Capt. Moffat 
was Portwarden of the port of New York.^s He died at Dan- 
bury, Connecticut, the home of his second wife's ancestors, on 
August 22, 1853, at the age of 67 years. 



28Civil List of the State of New York, page 266. 



76 John Little Moffat, Jr. 



John Little Moffat (No. 14 below), at the age twenty- 
three years married Hannah Curtis, daughter of Reuben Curt's 
of Danbury, Connecticut. Fourteen children were born to them ; 
but only five survived infancy, and but three of those five mar- 
ried and had issue. Mr. Moffat lived in New York city from his 
marriage until about the middle of the 30's when he moved to 
Northern Georgia, in the valley of the Nacoochie, where he had 
purchased and betook himself to operate some gold mines. He 
had previously owned a gold mine in North Carolina, and on three 
separate occasions during his life made, and as many times lost, 
what in those days was deemed a very substantial fortune. In 
his youth, he learned the trade of a silversmith and throughout 
his life found satisfaction in the thought that he "had a trade." 
Lack of persistence seems to have been the defect in what 
otherwise was a character of high purpose, charm and manly 
lovableness. He was identified in turn with the Presbyterian, 
Episcopalean, Dutch Reformed, Quaker, Methodist and Sweden- 
borgian faiths, but found the satisfaction he sought in none 
of them, — except possibly in the last, with the teachings of which 
he became familiar during the closing years of his life. 

When the "gold fever" fell upon the country, following the 
discovery of gold in California, it found Mr. Moffat at the bottom 
of one of his waves of financial success, and he joined the throng 
of "forty-niners" and crossed the plains to the Pacific coast. 
While in California he became assayer for the United States 
Government, and during the few years of his stay there established 
a reputation for unswerving integrity in the assaying of gold 
that survived, for many years, his return to the East. He died 
in Brooklyn, N. Y., at the home of his son. Dr. Reuben Curtis 
Moffat, on June 19, 1865, at the age of seventy-seven years, 
idolized by his daughters and surviving sons. 

John Carpenter, M. D. (No. 21 below), according to the 
inscription on his gravestone in the burial ground of the old 
Dutch Church at New Utrecht, Long Island, was born April 
17, 1 791 ; and that date has accordingly been adopted by the 
writer, in the genealogical table below, as the date of his birth. 



John Carpenter, M. D. 77 



The records of the Goshen Presbyterian Church, however, 
recite that he was baptized on January 31, 1790,^9 which, — if 
April 17th was, as is probable, his birthday, — would suggest 
that possibly an error of one year had been made by whoever 
caused the gravestone to be inscribed, and that the true date of 
his birth was April 17, 1789. But his parents were not married 
until January 15, 1789 ;3o so the error undoubtedly lies in the rec- 
ords of the church, and the date of baptism should have been 
stated as January 31, 1792. 

According to information furnished the writer by Mrs. 
Marion C. Turrill (No. 243 below), John Carpenter came to New 
York city in 1807, — he could have been but sixteen years of age 
at the time, — and studied medicine with a Dr. Douglas. He was 
licensed to practice upon attaining his majority in 1812. Upon 
the breaking out of hostilities in 1812, he served in the Sea Coast 
Fensibles and later was with General Jackson in Tennessee, dur- 
ing a part of the Seminole War. As surgeon's mate he was 
stationed, in 1817, at Fort Hamilton in the town of New Utrecht 
at the mouth of the harbor of New York, and there he met, and 
soon married, Margaret Smith daughter of Hugh and Jane De- 
Nyse Smith. He resigned from the army shortly after his 
marriage, and settled as a practising physician in New Utrecht 
and remained there until his death. New Utrecht became years 
after his death, a part of the city of Brooklyn, and upon the 
creation of the Greater New York was included within the limits 
of the present City of New York. 

Dr. Carpenter was an earnest christian and for forty years 
was superintendent of the Sunday School of the old Dutch Church 
at New Utrecht, where a tablet has been installed to his memory. 
He was a successful practitioner and a beloved member of the 
community in which he lived. On his gravestone is inscribed : 

John Carpenter 

The Beloved Physician 

Born April 17th, 1791 

Died Sept. 13th, 1864 



^^'Independent Republican, issue of 21 October. 1902. 
=»New York Daily Advertiser, issue of 27 January, 1789. 



78 John S. and William S. Moffat. 

John Shaw Moffat (No. 23 below) was educated at the 
Homer Academy, Homer, New York, and when about forty 
years of age (in September, 1854) moved with his family from 
Dryden, New York, to Hudson, Wisconsin, where he remained 
until his death on December 7th, 1902, at the age of 78 years. He 
was a practising lawyer and for three successive terms served as 
county judge at Hudson. He was the first magistrate of the 
city of Hudson, and in early days served on the school board of 
that city. He was an earnest member of the Baptist Church and 
was a life deacon in the First Baptist church of Hudson. He is 
said to have been a man of strong convictions and fearless in his 
expressions of the same, but of courtly manner and kindly dis- 
posed toward all men. He married, at the age of thirty, Nancy 
A. Bennet, then living at Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, 
who had been educated at the female seminary of Geneva, Ontario 
County, New York, and later at the Academy in Cortland, New 
York. Much of Judge Moffat's success and strength were due 
to the influence of his wife, who is described as having been a 
recognized leader in whatever circle she moved, a fine conversa- 
tionalist and an omnivorous reader. 

William Shaw Moffat (No. 25 below) died at Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, on September 4, 1895, at the age of 76 years. Like 
his brother, John Shaw Moffat, he was a man of strong char- 
acter, devoted to his conception of the right and determined at all 
costs to uphold it. He had great sympathy for all in poverty and 
suffering, and was always ready to aid them to the best of his 
means. He was a pronounced abolitionist when opposition to 
slavery was unpopular; but he cared more for what he believed 
to be right than for the plaudits of men. He also held the most 
radical views as a total abstinence advocate, and had little toler- 
ance of temporizing methods in fighting the evil of intemperance. 
When the civil war broke out, his sense of duty impelled him, 
though forty-three years of age, to leave his wife and children 
and fight for the right as he saw it ; and he went to the front as 
Second Lieutenant of the 143rd New York State Volunteers. He 
was promoted to First Lieutenant, and he acted as Captain dur- 
ing a part of the war though never receiving a commission as 
such. He saw the different sides of the soldier's life, endured 



Elizabeth Pierson Otis. 79 



its hardships and privations, and was in several hard fought 
battles. He knew fear in no form, and never for a moment lost 
his faith in the justice and ultimate triumph of the Union cause. 
His health was broken by the rigors of the service, and failing 
strength compelled his resignation in February, 1864. After the 
death, in 1885, of his second wdfe, he made his home at Eau 
Claire, Wisconsin, with his daughter Mrs. Ella Moffat Ingram 
(No. 102 below). 

Elizabeth Pierson (No. 35 below) married, in 1828, Wil- 
liam Otis, the ancestor of a family widely known and influential 
for many generations in the western part of Orange County. At 
the time of the marriage William Otis was a widower, forty-seven 
years of age, with several children by his first wife, Clarissa Gale, 
whom he had married in 1814 and who had died in 1826. He 
was born in Massachusetts and settled in Orange County early in 
the 19th century. He was of the seventh generation from John 
Otis who came to Massachusetts about 1633, and was son of 
Captain Isaac Otis 3rd, who served in the Revolutionary War. 
William Otis served in the War of 1812. At the time of his 
marriage to Elizabeth Pierson. he was largely engaged, in addi- 
tion to his farming and milling, in the manufacture of woollen 
goods; and he was. for those days, a large employer of labor. 
With robust health, a fine presence, exemplary habits and un- 
swerving integrity, his name stood for all that was honorable 
and just. In politics, he was a strong partisan, — at first an old 
line Whig and later a Republican, — and in religion he was an 
uncompromising Puritan. His Hfe was useful and consistent, 
and his name is an honored one. 

Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D. (No. 43 below) was of 
strong character, at war with itself through boyhood and youth, 
but finding its relief, as manhood w^as attained, in an intense and 
devoted religious conviction that remained with him until his 
death. His father's means had been small and he had been 
reared in the city of New York in rigidly straitened circum- 
stances if not in actual want. The boyhood education he received 
was meager, though in early manhood he made good the lack 
through the force of his indomitable will ; and the large measure 



8o Rev. John Moffat Howe. 

of success which later came to him, — success in all that creates 
the worthy man and the valuable citizen, as well as success in 
attaining- the substantial things of life, — was due in no small 
measure to the ennobling influence that the gentle mother unceas- 
ingly exercised over a character of inherently sterling worth. Of 
his mother he wrote, thirty-five years after her death. — 

"I think of her as she was in my boyhood ; of her influence in the 
family among the children and with my father; of her love and sympathy 
as exhibited in various attentions in sickness and in health; her un- 
wearied attentions to my brother George, who, for three or four years, 
beginning with the eleventh year of his age, suffered excruciating pains 
from inflammatory rheumatism; of her great love for my younger brother, 
Bezaleel, who, as he came up toward manhood was a source of great 
anxiety and care, yet, how a mother's love clung to him unfalteringly 
and with the tenderest interest; of her influence in counteracting the 
teachings and habits of men addicted to drinking liquors. To our 
mother all the children owe the bias, early implanted in them, against 
the drinking of intoxicants. She manifested the faithful, loving mother 
down to the very last of her earthly life, though it was through many 
difficulties." 

As Dr. Howe's religious inclinations developed, he identified 
himself with the Methodists, and was one of the founders of the 
Greene Street Methodist church. He had been baptized in infancy 
by Dr. Beach of St. George's Episcopal church, then located on 
Beelcman Street, and in his early manhood was confirmed by 
Bishop Hobart at Christ Church of which his friend, Dr. Thomas 
Lyell, was rector ; but the influence of his associates, or some 
other of the many undeclared causes which divide people into 
contentious camps in what they all are pleased to term the com- 
mon church militant, cast his fate with Methodism, and in 1836. 
while still engaged in a more or less lucrative practice as a 
dentist, — dentistry not then being regarded, as now, as a pro- 
fession, — he became a licensed preacher of that denomination. 
In due time he attained the deaconate, and in 1843 was ordained 
an elder of the church. 

Prior to this time, however, and thereunto moved by what 
he regarded as his almost miraculous cure from a well developed 
case of consumption, he determined to become a physician in 
order that he might relieve the sufferings of others. He accord- 
ingly registered, in 1841, with a practising physician of New 
York, — as was then the method prescribed by law, — and pursuing 
his studies for between two and three years received from the 



Rev. John Moffat Howe. 8i 



Castleton (Vermont) Medical College, in 1844, the degree of 
M. D. He had travelled in Europe in the late 30's, — a much 
more considerable undertaking in those days than now, — in search 
of the health that had failed him, and it is probable that upon 
that trip he gained the impulse which led him to become a phy- 
sician. It does not appear that he ever w^as active in practice, 
and it does appear that of the three vocations for which he fitted 
himself his heart was clearly in the ministry. 

In 1853 Dr. Howe purchased a large tract of land at what 
then was called Acquackanonk, but later became the city of 
Passaic, New Jersey, and built a spacious house where he passed 
the remaining years of his life. He was at that time a man of 
wealth and influence, and he became a large landowner and a 
benefactor of the town into which he had moved. 

Dr. Howe was thrice happily married. His first wife, whom 
he married when he was thirty-two years of age and she barely 
twenty, was Mary Mason, daughter of Rev. Thomas Mason of 
the Methodist church. They were married on October 31, 1838, 
shortly after his return from abroad. Their married life, how- 
ever, was of short duration, the young wife dying at the birth of 
her second child, on October 15, 1841. Two years later, on 
September 14, 1843, Dr. Howe married Ann W. Morgan, the 
daughter of John and Elizabeth Chambers Morgan of Philadel- 
phia, a family prominent in and devoted in their interests to the 
Methodist church ; but this union, too, was destined to be brief. 
Scarcely more than a year after the marriage the wife died, on 
October 19, 1844, giving birth to a son ; and darkness and desola- 
tion again fell upon this strong and earnest man. Time, how- 
ever, the healer of sorrows, alleviated his sufferings, and on May 
7, 1846, Dr. Howe was married for the third time within the com- 
pass of less than eight years, his bride on this occasion being 
Elizabeth Barnard Jenkins, a native of the city of Hudson and 
daughter of Barzillai Jenkins and Susan Barnard. 

The life of John Mofifat Howe was a strong one and a good 
one ; and the family store has been enriched through the manner 
in which he lived it. 3' 



«The circumstances in the life of Dr. Howe above narrated are ^taken from 
"A Filial Tribute to the Memory of Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D." Privately 
printed, 1889. The DeVinne Press. 



82 Reuben Curtis Moffat, M. D. 



Reuben Curtis Moffat, M. D. (No. 67 below) was a 
widely known and honored physician of the city of Brooklyn. 
Graduating from the medical school of the University of the 
City of New York in the class of 1846, with the degree of M. D. 
in course, he began practice in the city of New York where he 
had lived since infancy, but soon removed to Newtown, Long 
Island, and two years later, in July 1849, settled in Brooklyn 
where he resided until his death, forty-five years later. Dr. Hans 
B. Gram, the first practitioner of homeoeopathy in America, was an 
intimate friend of Dr. Moffat's father; and partly through his 
influence and partly through that of Dr. Moffat's cousin, Joseph T. 
Curtis, M. D., who had married his sister Adeline (No. 65 below), 
Dr. Moffat became an earnest advocate and practitioner of the 
principles of homoeopathy, and throughout his life was one of its 
most stalwart champions. In 1883 the Regents of the University 
of the State of New York conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of M. D., in recognition of his learning and prominence 
among the physicians of the State. Early in life Dr. Moffat 
enthusiastically embraced the doctrines of the Church of the New 
Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) and collected all the writings of that 
church which had appeared in English up to the early 50's. 
These he placed at the disposal of the public through the medium 
of a free circulating library which he maintained until the estab- 
lishment of a similar but more modern library by the Brooklyn 
Society of the New Church. He was one of the prominent 
organizers of that society, conducting its services until an ordained 
minister was secured, and thereafter teaching a doctrinal class 
until obliged by failing health, within a year of his death, to 
relinquish it. In personal appearance. Dr. Moffat was tall, 
handsome and of commanding presence ; and he was of courtly 
manner toward all. The impress of superiority was upon him 
and the qualities which made it were within him. He loved his 
fellow men, loved to work among them, loved to help them in 
their need; and love of that kind begets a love which finds ex- 
pression in genuine sorrow when death severs the tie. Dr. Moffat 
was widely loved and his death sincerely mourned by a wide circle 
of patients and friends. 



William B. Moffat, M. D. 83 



William B. Moffat, M. D. (No. 80 below) amassed a con- 
siderable fortune through the manufacture and sale of the widely 
advertised "Moffat's Life Pills" and "Phoenix Bitters," which 
had been invented by his father, in 1837, when William B. was 
but nineteen years of age. Until William B's marriage in 1854, 
the relations between him and his father seem to have been 
cordial; but shortly after the marriage the father brought suit 
against the son for a dissolution of the copartnership which he 
claimed had existed between them in the "Life Pills" and 
"Bitters" business, for the preceding ten years, under the 
firm name of William B. Moffat, and for an accounting 
of the profits of that business. The son denied the copartner- 
ship and succeeded in the litigation (reported as Moffat 
v. Moffat 10 Bosworth [N. Y.] 468) which was very bitter, 
and resulted in a family estrangement that was never 
healed. The two other children then living took sides with 
their father against William B., and William B. retained 
the business and the wealth. William B. Moffat's death on April 
II, 1862, was followed on November 6, 1863, by that of his 
father. It is doubtless because of this estrangement that the 
writer has been unable to obtain any information (other than 
that afforded by such public and church records as he has been 
able to find) concerning the children of William Moffat (No. 3 
below), other than John, the father of William B. Of John's 
seven children, only two survived William B., — Sophia M. Quack- 
enbos (No. 81 below) who died in 1865, and Maria Moffat who 
lived an isolated life and died unmarried, in abject poverty, in 
1892. Neither of the two children of William B. Moffat has any 
information as to their father's aunts (Nos. 15, 17, 19 and 20 
below), and neither John M. Quackenbos (No. 236 below) nor 
the children of Mrs. Sophia M. Eager (No. 233 below) have any 
records that afford any information concerning William Moffat's 
life or family, beyond that concerning the son John and his 
descendants which is set forth in the genealogical table below. 

Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, D. D. (No. 90 below) was 
an eminent divine of the Congregational Church. He graduated 
with the degree of A. B. at the University of the city of New 
York in 1842, and entered the Princeton Theological Seminary 



84 Rev. Hug-h Smith Carpenter, D. D. 

in the Fall of that year. He was ordained in October, 1845, and 
called to the pastorate of the Canal Street Presbyterian church in 
New York city. In April, 1853, ^e became pastor of the State 
Street Congregational church in Portland, Maine, where he re- 
mained until March, 1857, and then was called to the Bedford 
Avenue Congregational church in Brooklyn. He filled this 
charge until 1859, and then became and continued as pastor of 
the Westminster Presbyterian church in Brooklyn until 1869, 
when he went to the Howard Presbyterian church of San 
Francisco, California. He was pastor of a church in Washington 
in 1875 and 1876, and returned in 1877 to the Bedford Avenue 
church in Brooklyn. His active pastoral work was closed as 
minister of the Stuyvesant Avenue church of the same city.s^ 
In 1873 Princeton conferred upon him the honorary degree of 
D. D.. He was an author of considerable repute, and is described 
as a preacher of far more than ordinary power and ability. From 
the genealogist's point of view, however, he was a disappoint- 
ment; for he kept no family records whatever, not even of the 
births and deaths of his children. The information concerning 
his immediate family which is given below was collated almost 
wholly from the records of churches and contemporary news- 
papers, and from public records. 



^^Biographical Annals. University of the City of New York. Vol. i, page 13- 



PART VIII. 



Genealogical Table 

of 

Descent from Rev. John Moffat. 

Note: In the following table b stands for "born," d for "died," and m for 
"married." S. P. stands for sine pariete, indicating that the descendant referred to 
was without issue at the date at which he or she is stated in the table to be living, 
and O. S. P., — obit sine pariete, — means that the descendant referred to died with- 
out issue. A t following a name means that the author has no further informa- 
tion concerning the descendant than is set forth in the table. The small number 
immediately following a name, indicates the generation in descent. 

1. Rev. John Moffatl d Little Britain, N. Y., 22 April, 1788 ; 

m. 10 December, 1750, Margaret Little (dau. of Rev. 
John Little and Frances Fitzgerald) h 30 May, 1724; d 
Little Britain, N. Y., 18 October, 1800.33 

(2) John Little Moffat 

(3) William Moffat 

(4) Margaret Moffat 

(5) Mary Moffat 

(6) Samuel Moffat 

(7) Prances Moffat 

(8) Elisabeth Moffat 

(9) Catherine Moffat 

2. John Little MoffatS h Little Britain, N. Y., 15 June, 1753 ; 

d Goshen, N. Y., 10 February, 1788; m 16 March, 1779, 
Mary Y elver ton (dau. of Anthony Yelverton and Phebe 
Youngs) h Ulster County, N. Y., 1759;^^ Ck)shen, N. Y., 
17 February, 1788. 

(10) Phebe Moffat 

(11) Margaret Moffat 

(12) Maria Moffat 

(13) Anthony Yelverton Moffat 

(14) John Little Moffat 



ssNew York Gazette and General Advertiser: Saturday, 2S October, 1800. 

85 



86 Second Generation. 



3. William Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 29 May, 1755 ; d 

New York City, 21 December, 1820 ;34 m (i) Ulster 
County, N. Y., 1781, Eunice Youngs (dau. of Henry 
Youngs and Abigail Horton) b 8 August, 1763; d 10 
December, 1799; m (2) Rhoda .f 

(15) Julia Ann Moffat 

(16) Henry Youngs Moffat bapt. 27 July, 1863 ;3s 

d in infancy 

(17) Abigail Moffat 

(18) John Moffat 

(19) Frances Moffat 

(20) Blimbeth Moffat 

4. Margaret Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 6 June, 1757 ; 

m Capt. Jacob Wright b Jamaica, L. Ls^-j- 

5. Mary Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 12 July, 1759; d 

Galen, Seneca Co., N. Y., 25 August, 1823 ;37 m Little 
Britain, N. Y., 15 January, 1789,38 Anthony Carpenter 
(son of Anthony Carpenter and Abigail, of New Haven 
Conn.) b between 1754 and 176039^ 

(21) John Carpenter 

(22) George Carpenter b 16 September, 1793; bapt. 

28 August, i796.4of 

6. Samuel Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 17 February, 

iy6i ; d Dryden, N. Y., 13 March. 1841 ; m Lansing, 
N. Y., 25 January, 1814, Ann Shazv b County Antrim, 
Ireland, December, 1786; d Dryden, N. Y., 24 June, 
1844. 



^^New York Gazettb and General Advertiser of Friday, 22 October, 1820. 

^'Bethlehem Church Records, published in Newburgh Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. VI. 

'^Records of New York Society of the Cincinnati. 

^'New York Evening Post: Friday, 26 September, 1823. 

^New York Daily Advertiser: Wednesday, 27 January, 1789. 

s^New Haven Probate Records. 

■^''Carpenter Genealogy by A. B. Carpenter, 1898. The second son's name is 
stated in this Carpenter Genealogy to be Anthony; but the baptismal records of 
the Goshen Presbyterian Church state the name to be George. (See "Independent 
Republican" of Goshen of 16 December, 1902.) The descendants of the elder 
son, Dr. John Carpenter, have no family records whereby such question as to the 
name of the younger son may be settled. 



Second Generation. ^7 



(23) John Shaw Moffat 

(24) Margaret Lovenia Moffat 

(25) William Shaw Moffat 

(26) Samuel Alonso Moffat 
5(27) Daniel J. Moffat 
1(28) Isabella S. Moffat 

(29) Addison Robert Moffat 

(30) Mary Jane Moffat 

7. Frances Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 2 April, 1764; d 

Wallkill, Orange County, N. Y., 7 October, 1843; ^« 
1788 Josiah Pier son (son of Silas Pierson) b Ulster 
County, N. Y., 23 February, 1761 ; d Mount Hope, 
Orange County, N. Y., 26 March, 1826. 

(31) Mary Pierson 
^(32) Henry Pierson 

[(33) Richard Wright Pierson 

(34) Margaret Mary Anne Pierson b 5 September, 

1794; J 20 November, 1872 mww 

(35) Elisabeth Pierson 

(36) 5t7a^ Gilbert Pierson 

(37) William Pierson b 16 February, 1801 ; rf Mount 

Hope, Orange Co., N. Y., 16 July 1858, unm 

(38) John Moffat Pierson b 25 December, 1803; d 

Calhoun, Orange Co., N. Y., 9 June, 1828 
unm 

8. Elizabeth Moffat^ b Little Britain, N. Y., 6 May, 1766; d 

Milton, Ulster Co., N. Y., 3 July, 1844; m Ulster 
County, N. Y., 15 March, 1792,4' Cornelius Roosa b 30 
November, 1760; (bap. Shawangunk Church, Ulster Co., 
N. Y.) ; (/ New York City 7 March, 1834. 

(39) Catherine Roosa b Alabama, Genessee Co., 

N. Y., 1793;^^ d New York City, 27 May, 
1855 unm 



"New Windsor Church Records, published in Newburgh Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. 
II. The name Roosa is there erroneously stated to be Roe. 
"Records of New York Board of Health. 



88 Third Generation. 



9. Catherine Moffat^ h Little Britain, N. Y., 30 March, 
1774; d New York City, 3 December, 1849; m 15 Feb- 
ruary, 1800, Major Bezaleel Howe'^^ (son of Bezaleel 
and Anna How, — note the spelling) b Marlborough, 
Mass., 9 December, 1750; d New York City, 3 Septem- 
ber, 1825. 

(40) Eliza Howe b 19 November, 1800; d 28 June, 

1802 

(41) George C. Howe 

(42) Margaretta Hozve 

(43) John Moffat Howe 

(44) Oscar Hozve b 11 March, 1808; d 19 May, 1808. 

(45) Julia Ann Howe b 4 October, 1810; d 6 

August, 181 1. 

(46) Catherine Howe 

(47) Bezaleel Howe 

10. Phebe MoffatS b Goshen, N. Y., 28 January, 1780; d 

Auburn, N. Y., 9 July, 1814; m 20 June, 1809, George 
Leitch b Kilwinning, Scotland, 4 October, 1778; d 
Auburn, N. Y., 12 October, 1820. 

(48) George Fleming Leitch. 

11. Margaret Moffat3 J? Goshen, N. Y., 2 January, 1782; d 

Wallkill, N. Y., 7 November, 1813 ; m i March, 1806. 
Philip Miller44 (son of Philip Miller) b New Cornwall, 
N. Y., 1777 ;45 d Wallkill, N. Y., 16 September, 1837. 

(49) John Moffat Miller 

(50) Mary Elizabeth Miller 

12. Maria Moffat^ b Goshen. N. Y., 22 Februarv, 1784; d 

New Orleans, La., 15 February, 1866; m i January, 
1801, Capt. Thomas Hozvard (mariner) b Maryland, 



^By his first wife, Hannah Merritt. of Mamaroneck, N. Y., id New York 
City, 18 September, 1798), Major Howe had one daughter. Maria (b 6 January, 
1789) who married 23 November, 1805, John Giiion, and had eleven children. She 
died 1832. 

«Philip Miller w (2) Ruth Mills (dau. of Jacob Mills) of Wallkill, N. Y., h 
1786; d 4 January, 1862, and had by her Maia;aret, Margaret Sarah. Wickham, 
Adaline and Charles. All but Charles died unmarried. 

^'Gravestone at Wallkill Cemetery, J'hilipsburgh, N. Y. 



Third Generation. 89 



1771 ; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 February, 1854.46 

(51) John Hozvard bapt. 23 November, 1801 ;47 d 

12 December, 180748 

(52) George Fleming Howard bapt. 9 October, 

1803 ;49 d 28 October, 18055° 

(53) Blisa Hozvard bapt. 5 May, 1806 ;49 d 6 De- 

cember, 1806.S1 

(54) Thomas Howard b 14 September, i8i2;5- d 15 

April, 18155^ 

(55) Thomas Hodgkinson Howard 

13. Anthony Yelverton Moffat^ h Goshen, N. Y., 18 Jan- 
uary, 1786; d Danbury, Conn., 22 August, 1853 ;S3 ^-f 
(i) Norfolk, Va., 15 January, 1807, Sarah Amanda 
Fims Wirling (dau. of Capt. Robert Wirling and Eu- 
phemia Patterson, of Shelburne, N. S.) ; m (2) New 
York City, 19 June, 1820, Julia Curtis (dau. of 
Abner Curtis and Mary Osborn) b 13 December, 1797; 
d II February, 1865. 

(56) Robert John Moffat b 5 March, 1808 ;54 d New 

Canaan, Conn., 22 January, 182955 unm 

(57) Buphemia Maria Moffat 

(58) Edwin Curtis Moffat 

(59) Julia Curtis Moffat 

(60) Anthony Yelverton Moffat b 25 June, 1826 ;42 d 

30 November, 1826 

(61) Mary Bmma Moffat 

(62) Anthony Yelverton Moffat b 3 January, 1831 ; d 

22 August, 1 83 1 



"Gravestone at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
■^ '■"Records of St. John's Chapel, Trinity Parish, New York. 
^Records of New York Board of Health. 

^"Records of Duane Street, New York, Methodist Episcopal Church. 
'"New York Gazette and General Advertiser of Thursday, 31 October, 1805. 
■"Same, of Monday, 8 December, 1806. 
"^Records of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I. 
"New York Times of Thursday, 25 August, 1853. 

"Records of Christ Church. New Brunswick, N. J., where he was baptized 
IS March, 181 1. 

"•■'New York Spectator of Friday, 30 January, 1829. 



9^ Third Generation. 



14. John Little MoffatS b Goshen, N. Y., 12 February, 1788 ; 
d Brooklyn, N. Y., 19 June, 1865 ; m Danbury, Conn., 
19 March, 181 1, Hannah Curtis (dau. of Reuben Curtis 
and Silence Allen) b Danbury, Conn., 28 June, 1792; d 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 18 January, 1859. 

(63) John Little Moffat b New York City, 20 May, 

1812; d 12 September, 1812 

(64) Alary Silence Moffat 

(65) Adeline Margaret Moffat 

(66) John Little Moffat b New York City, 24 April, 

1817; d II February, 1832 

(67) Reuben Curtis Moffat 

(68) Frances Denton Moffat b New York City, 18 

February, 1821 ; d 22 June, 1822 

(69) George Fleming Moffat b New York City, 13 

April, 1823 ; d 7 August, 1848, unm 

(70) Anthony Yelverton Moffat b New York City, 8 

February, 1825 ; d 26 May, 1825. 

(71) Hozvard Allen Moffat b New York City, 14 

June, 1826; d 26 March, 1827 
(^2) Isabella Frances Moffat b New York City, 23 
January, 1828 ; d 26 July, 1828. 

(73) Juliette Elizabeth Moffat b New York City, 15 

April, 1829; d 25 April, 1829. 

(74) Frederick Moffat b New York City, 6 Novem- 

ber, 1830; d 20 November, 1830 

(75) Eugene Moffat b New York City, 27 Novem- 

ber, 1832 ; d 6 July, 1833. 
{'/6) Thomas Hozvard Moffat^^ b Nacoochie, Ga., 20 
March, 1837; d Tully, N. Y., 26 April, 1892, 
unm 

15. Julia Ann Moffat3 b 1782:57 d Philadelphia, Pa., 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1862 ; 58 m Col. John Thompson (a widower) b 
1774 ;58 d Philadelphia, Pa., 31 July, 1840.58 O. S. P. 



^'Thomas Howard Moffat changed his name in early youth to Howard Fenwick 
Moffat, and as such served as an officer in the U. S. Navy throughout the Civil 
War. He lost an arm while passing the forts at Vicksburg, under Admiral 
Farragut, and was on the retired list of the Navy at the time of his death. 

"Records of North Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. 

"^Philadelphia Public Ledger of s February, 1862. 



Third Generation. 9i 



17. 



Abigail Moffat3 d in Philadelphia, Pa.; m, probably in 
New York and in 1816, Capt. Joseph Christopher Reilly 
(mariner) lost at seaf 
(yy) Julia E. A. Reilly 

(78) William Moffat Reilly^^ b 13 March, 1822; d 

Philadelphia, 29 February, 1896, unm 

(79) John Thompson Reilly b 1827; d 24 January-, 

1870, unm 



18. John Moffat3 b 3 August, 1788; d New York City, 3 
November, 1863 ; m Troy, N. Y., 10 September, i8i6,«° 
Rachel Maria Brinckerhoff (dau. of Isaac Brinckerhoff 
and Sophia Quackenbos) b 25 November, 1793;^' d 
New York City, 21 September, 1879. 

(80) William Brinckerhoff Moffat 

(81) Sophia Youngs Moffat 

(82) Maria Moffat b 30 March, 1822; d New York 

City, 30 July, 1892, unm 

(83) Charlotte Annclia Moffat b 15 January, 1825; d 

23 June, 1825. 

(84) Caroline Moffat b 19 March, 1826; d 27 Feb- 

ruary, 1827 

(85) Caroline Moffat b 22 February, 1828; d 8 

April, 185 1, unm 

(86) John Viele Moffat b 14 August, 1833; d 24 

August, 1834 



=9Gen William Moflfat Reilly was for many years Major General and Com- 
mander of the National Guard of Philadelphia. He was a prominent democra 
Trticularly during the administration of President Pierce, and provided by h.s 
:rfo the erection of an elaborate mausoleum in North Laurel H.ll Cemeter>-^ 
Ph ladelphia, upon which he caused the following inscription to be placed:-Erected 
by General William Moffat Reilly to the memory of his father Joseph Chnstopher 
ReillvhTs mother Abigail Moffat Reilly; his brother, Major John Thompson Re.lly. 
.S^Moffat Thompson; Colonel John Thompson; Eliza Moffat Wh.tt.er; Frances 
Moffat Green. 

""Albany Gazette of 19 September, 1816. 

"Pearson's Genealogies of the First Settlers in Albany, page 27. 



92 Third Generation. 



19. Frances Moffat^ bapt. 2-] June, 1790 ;6^ d Philadelphia, 

I June, 1826 ;63 w (prior to 13 April, 1820), ^^ Charles H. 
Green-\. (None of the descendants of her sister Abigail 
or of her brother John, know whether or not she left 
issue.) 

20. Elizabeth Moffat^ bapt. 22 April, 1792 ;62 d New York 

City, 21 March, 1825 ;65 m subsequently to 13 April, 
1820,64 Capt. Blias Whittier (mariner) f (None of the 
descendants of her sister Abigail or of her brother John, 
know whether or not she left issue.) 

21. John Carpenter, M. D.,3 h 17 April, lygi;^^ d New 

Utrecht, N. Y., 13 September, 1864; m New Utrecht, 
N. Y., 5 June, 18 17, Margaret Smith (dau. of Hugh 
Smith and Jane DeNyse) h 7 March, 17951^^ ^ New 
Utrecht, N. Y.. 24 August, 1864. 

(87) Helen Smith Carpenter b 25 March, iSig;^^ d 

19 September, 1819.^^ 

(88) Jane Stezvart Carpenter 

(89) Mary Carpenter 

(90) Hugh Smith Carpenter 

(91) Rima Stezvart Carpenter 

(92) John Carpenter b 5 February, 1828 i^^ d 19 

June, 1828.66 

(93) John Carpenter b 2 April, 183 1 ;66 d 19 August, 

1831.66 



82Betijiehein Church Records, published in Newburgh Hist. Soc. Papers, vol. VI. 

^^The gravestone in St. Peters Church Yard, Philadelphia, recites her age at 
the time of her death as 26. The intended courtesy of this inscription, however, is 
apparent from the record of her baptism in Bethlehem Church in old Ulster 
County, N. Y., which with certainty fixes her age at the time of her death as at 
least 36. 

«*See last will and testament of her father, William Moffat, dated that day and 
recorded in New York Surrogate's Office, Liber. 56 of Wills, page 240. 

bsNew York Evening Post of Tuesday, 22 March, 1825: 

"Died: Last evening, of consumption, Eliza, wife of Capt. Elias Whittier, and 
daughter of the late William Moffat, Esq'r. The friends of the family and of Mr. 
Charles H. Green are invited to attend her funeral this afternoon at 5 o'clock 
precisely, from No. 3 Cedar Street, without further invitation. Carriages will be 
in attendance." 

The New York City Directory for 1824-1825 shows that Charles H. Green 
was U. S. Military Store Keeper and resided at 3 Cedar Street. 

"Gravestone in burial ground of old Dutch Church at New Utrecht. 



Third Generation. 93 

23. John Shaw Moffat3 b Lansing, N. Y., 25 November, 1814; 

d Hudson, Wis., 7 December, 1902 ; m Dryden, N. Y., 
24 January, 1844, Nancy A. Bennct (dau. of Phineas 
Bennet) b Ithaca, N. Y., 27 July, 1822 ; d Hudson. Wis., 
8 December, 1894. 

(94) Mary Isabella Moifat 

24. Margaret Lovenia Moffat3 b Etna, N. Y., 28 May, 1817; 

d Dryden, N. Y., i July, 1864; m Etna, N. Y., 13 April, 
1842, Chaunccy L. Scott b Marbletown, Ulster Co., 
N. Y., 19 February, 1814; d Cortland, N. Y., 27 Feb- 
ruary, 1895. 

(95) Addison Moifat Scott 

(96) Eugene H. Scott 

(97) Phineas Bennet Scott b Dryden Hill, N. Y., 16 

January, 1848 ; d Dryden Hill, N. Y., 30 Oc- 
tober, 1861. 

(98) Katharine Ann Scott 

(99) Daniel John Scott b Dryden Hill, N. Y., 18 Oc- 

tober, 1853 ; d Dryden Hill, N. Y., 20 Novem- 
ber, 1861. 
(100) Adelbert Chaunccy Scott 



25. William Shaw Moffat3 b Dryden, N. Y., 15 July, 1819; 
d Eau Claire, Wis., 4 September, 1895; m (i) West- 
moreland, Oneida Co., N. Y.. 15 September, 1841, 
Laura Maria Blakesley b 14 October, 1812; d Dryden, 
N. Y., 2 October, 1856; m (2) Dryden, N. Y., 16 
August, 1859, Matilda B. Sweetland (dau. of Col. 
Bowen Sweetland) b Dryden, N. Y., 25 February, 1825 ; 
d Saugatuck, Mich., 18 December, 1885. 
(loi) Thomas Morris Moffat b 30 December, 1845; d 
20 September, 1848 

(102) Ellen Elisabeth Moffat 

(103) Harriet Louisa Moffat 

(104) Carrie May Moffat 



94- Third Generation. 



26. Samuel Alonzo Moffat^^ Etna, N. Y., 31 May, 1821 ; d 

Washington, D. C, 18 September, 1863; m (i) Etna, 
N. Y., 24 November, 1845, Maria Weaver, b Etna, 
N. Y., 8 March, 1822; d Etna, N. Y., 21 April, 1847; »« 
(2) Hudson, Wis., 22 November, 1859, Rachel A. 
F err ell (dau. of CorneHus Ferrell and Rachel) bapt 
Trenton, N. J., 14 April, 1829 ;^7 d Mt. Holly, N. J., 28 
July. 1886.68 

(105) Florence Maria Moffat 

(106) Maria Isabella Moffat 

(107) Samuel Moffat b Hudson, Wis., 16 October 

1862 ; d Elwyn, Penn., 26 February, 1872. 

27. Daniel J. Moffat3 b Etna, N. Y., 23 July, 1823 ; d Wash- 

ington, D. C, 6 February, 1907; m (i) Wilkesbarre, 
Penn., 18 September, 1845, Caroline M. Miller b 15 
September, 1826; d 10 April, 1864; m (2) Baltimore, 
Md., I May, 1869. Mary Doremus b i January, 1843 ; d 
23 November, 1877; m (3) Washington, D. C, 17 
June, 1879, Joanna Williamson b 2 August, 1859; (liv- 
ing 1907). 

(108) Sarah Frances Moffat 

(109) Carrie Isabella Moffat 
(no) William Herbert Moffat 
(in) Algernon Sydney Moffat 

28. Isabella S. Moffat3 b Etna, N. Y., 23 July, 1823 ; d Etna, 

N. Y., 22 November, 1850; m Ithaca, N. Y., 11 Septem- 
ber, 1849, ^-^» Weaver b Etna, N. Y., 21 March, 1817; 
d Etna, N. Y., 25 March, 1887. O. S. P. 

29. Addison Robert Moffat3 b Etna, N. Y., 31 July, 1825; 

(living 1907 Los Angeles, Cal.) ; m (i) Kingston, 
Jamaica. 22 December, 1852, Sarah Blakeley b Oberlin, 
Ohio, 1824; d Oberlin, Ohio, 12 March, 1864; m (2) 
New Richmond, Wis., 26 April, 1865, Marcia M. Edes 



"Records of First Presbyterian Church, Trenton, N. J. 
"New Jersey Vital Statistics at Trenton. Book 20, p. 58. 



Third Generation. 95 

b Norridgewock, Me., 27 May, 1828; d New Richmond, 
Wis., I April, 1893; m (3) Minneapolis, Minn., 5 Sep- 
tember, 1894, Affia Burns b 27 May, 1839; (living 1907). 
S. P. 

30. Mary Jane Moffat3 b Etna, N. Y., 25 October, 1827; 

(living 1907 Minneapolis, Minn.) ; m River Falls, Wis., 
13 May, 1857, Arthur Young b Fredonia, N. Y., 30 
May, 1829; d Prescott, Wis., 21 October, 1904. 

(112) Francis Moffat Young 

(113) Charles Addison Young b Prescott, Wis., 25 

Alarch, 1864; (living 1907) unm 

(114) Mary Edith Young 

(115) Arthur Willie Young b 31 January, 1858; d 10 

December, 1862. 

31. Mary Pierson3 b I January, 1789; d 26 January, 1871 ; m 

David Seybolt b 31 October, 1791 ; d Mt. Hope, Orange 
Co., N. Y., 26 February, 1832. O. S. P. 

32. Henry Pierson3 b 17 July, 1791 ; d Hamptonburgh, 

Orange Co., N. Y., 28 January, 1866; m (i) 5 Feb- 
ruary, 1823, Mary Shaw b 26 July, 1801 ; d 20 December, 
1853; w (2) 28 August, 1856, Susan Beyea b 4 Feb- 
ruary, 1822; (living 1907 Rye, N. Y.) 

(116) George Pier son 

(117) Harriet Pierson b 5 June, 1825; d 20 March, 

1826. 

(118) Martha Pierson b 26 December, 1826; d 4 

November, 1833. 

(119) John Pierson b 28 October, 1828; d 31 October, 

1828 

(120) William Henry Pierson 

(121) Sarah Jane Pierson b 29 July, 1832; d 13 Jan- 

uary, 1855, unm 

(122) Cornelius Watkins Pierson b 25 May, 1834; d 

23 April, 1893. unm 

(123) Silas Pierson b 23 March, 1837; d 26 March, 

1837- 



96 Third Generation. 



33' Richard Wright Pierson3 b 17 July, 1791 ; d Wallkill, 
N. Y., 23 December, 1844 ; m 29 January, 1820, Martha 
Corwin (dau. of Daniel Corwin and Anna Hulse) b 
1784 ; d 20 April, 1852. O. S. P. 

35. Elizabeth Pierson3 h 12 June, 1797; d Mount Hope, 

Orange County, N. Y., 20 November, 1864; m 13 April, 
1828, William Otis^^ (son of Capt. Isaac Otis 3rd) h i 
March, 1781 ; d 2 February, 1869. 

(124) Pier son Moffat Otis 

(125) Elisabeth Otis b i November, 1830; d 8 April, 

1835- 

(126) Galen Otis 

(127) Josiah Otis 

(128) Henry C. Otis b 20 March, 1838; (living 1907 

Otisville, Orange Co., N. Y.) unm 

(129) Charles H. Otis b 8 July, 1840; (living 1907 

Otisville, Orange Co., N. Y.) unm 

36. Silas Gilbert Pierson3 b 26 February, 1799; d Mount 

Hope, Orange County, N. Y., 6 October, 1842; m 2 
November, 1830, Salome B. Cook b Belchertown, Mass., 
28 July, 1804; d I March, 1892. 

(130) Frances Moffat Pierson b 29 March, 1833; d 2\ 

October, 1833 

(131) John Pierson 

(132) Harriet Newell Pierson 

(133) William H. Pierson b 20 January, 1841 ; d 3 De- 

cember, 1842. 

41. George C. Howe3 b 23 September, 1802; d New York 
City, 4 December, 184 1 ; m New York City, 24 May, 
1832, Hester Ann Higgins (dau. of Michael Higgins and 
Betty Gregory) b 16 July, 1808; d 15 March, 1884. 

(134) Mary C. Howe 

(135) Harriet Augusta Howe 

(136) Josephine B. Howe 

(137) George B. Howe 



^'William Otis married twice. By his first wife, Clarissa Gale, whom he 
married 14 April, 18 14, (she died in 1826) he had several children. 



Third Generation. 97 



42 Margaretta Howe3 b 22 February, 1804; d Brooklyn, 
N. Y., I December, 1896; m New York City i August, 
1820 ' George Washington Dupignac (son of John Du- 
pignlc of New London, Conn.) h 22 February, 1800 ;7o 
d 25 November, 1879.7° 

(138) Besaleel Howe Dupignac 

(139) Elizabeth Dupignac b 11 October, 1822; d 21 

November, 1890. tmm 

(140) George Washington Dupignac b 26 March, 

i824.t 

(141) Catherine Ann Dupignac b 18 December, 1825; 

d 15 July, 1886. unm 

(142) Theodore Dupignac b 25 March, 1828.! 

(143) Sarah Dupignac b 22 June, 1829; d 29 July; 

1829. 

(144) Bmma Dupignac b 24 June, 1830; d 27 August, 

1830. 

(145) John Dupignac b 27 September, 1831 ; d 25 De- 

cember, 1 83 1. 

(146) Margaretta Hozve Dupignac b 17 March, 1833; 

(living 1906 Brooklyn, N. Y.) unm 

(147) Fannie Dupignac b 29 April. 1834; d 23 June, 

1834. 

( 148) Franklin Augustus Dupignac b 20 July, 1835 ; d 

12 August, 1836. 

(149) Dora Dupignac b 10 June, 1836; d 28 July, 

1836. 

(150) Alonso Dupignac b 4 April, 1837 ; rf 12 August, 

1838. 

(151) Henry Clay Dupignac b 15 April, 1839; d 16 

July, 1840. 

(152) Richard Corzuin Pierson Dupignac b 18 Novem- 

ber, 1840; d 27 July, 1870, unm 

(153) Almira Dupignac 

(154) Adelaide Morse Dupignac 

"Records of Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



9^ Third Generation. 



(155) Edzvin Augustus Dupignac h 2,2 December, 

1845; (living 1906 Brooklyn, N. Y.) unm 

(156) Josephine Dupignac b i February, 1849; ^ ^o 

June, 1849. 



43. Rev. John Moffat Howe, M. D.,3 b 23 January, 1806; d 

Passaic, N. J., 5 February, 1885 ; m (i) New York City, 
31 October, 1838, Mary Mason (dau. of Rev. Thomas 
Mason and Mary W. Morgan) b New York City, 10 
August, 1818; d 15 October, 1841 ; m (2) New York 
City, 14 September, 1843, ^^'^ ^- Morgan (dau. of 
John Morgan and Ehzabeth Chambers) b Philadelphia, 
Penn., 18 March, 1815 ; d 19 October, 1844; m (3) New 
York City, 7 May, 1846, Bmeline Barnard Jenkins (dau. 
of Barzillai Jenkins and Susan Barnard) b Hudson, 
N. Y., 6 April, 1821 ; d Passaic, N. J., 20 March, 1906. 

(157) Frances Raniadge Howe 

(158) Mary Mason Hozve b New York City, 10 Octo- 

ber, 1841 ; d New York City, 20 November, 
1841 

(159) John Morgan Howe 

(160) George Rozvland Howe 

(161) Edwin Jenkins Howe 

(162) Charles Mortimer Howe 

(163) Ella Louise Hozve 

(164) Emeline Jenkins Howe 

(165) Susan Elanora Howe 



46. Catherine Howe^ b 21 September, 1812; d Mamaroneck, 
N. Y., 4 March, 1883; m 11 October, 1831, Samuel R. 
Spelman (son of Phineas Spelman and Phebe) b 29 
June, 1809 ; d Mamaroneck, N. Y., 22 April, 1885. 

(166) Jane Augusta Spelman 

(167) Helena Wakona Spelman b 5 September, 1834; 

d 30 July, 1836. 

(168) Mary Wakona Spelman 



Fourth Generation. 99 



47. Bezaleel HoweS b New York City, 17 August. 1815; d 

Goshen, N. Y., 18 January, 1858; m 5 August, 1838, 
Jane Cordelia Franks ' (dau. of Jacob Frank and Mary 
Barnet) h New York City, 18 May, 1820; d Abington, 
Conn., 5 September, 1886. 

(169) Jacob Prank Howe 

48. George Fleming Leitch^ b Auburn, N. Y., 11 July, 1811 ; 

d Skaneateles, N. Y., 28 February, 1855 ; m 16 Septem- 
ber, 1833, Catherine Hyde (dau. of Daniel Kellogg 
Hyde) b Skaneateles, N. Y., 27 July, 1814; d Skan- 
eateles, N. Y., 3 October, 1862. 

(170) Daniel Kellogg Lcitch 

(171) Laura Kellogg Leitch b 21 January, 1837; d 24 

July, 1851 

(172) George Fleming Leitch b 25 April, 1843; d 

Skaneateles, N. Y., 21 February, 1877, unm 

(173) Catherine Williams Leitch b 10 November, 

1845; d 12 November, 1861. 

(174) David Hyde Leitch b 21 April, 1848! 

(175) Lazurence Leitch b 8 November, 1851 ; d 17 

February, 1862 



49. 



John Moffat Miller^ b 28 November, 1806; d Crooked 
Creek, Indiana, 28 October, 1876 ; m 26 October, 1833, 
Sarah Jane Smith b 9 December, 181 2; d 3 October, 
1887. 

(176) Adeline Miller 

(177) Philip Grant Miller 

(178) Harriet Miller 

(179) Henry Clay Miller 

50. Mary Elizabeth Miller* b 13 August, 1809; d 23 May, 
1889; w Wallkill. Orange Co., N. Y., 28 February, 1828, 
Harry Houston b Scotchtown, Orange Co.. N. Y.. 3 
August, 1805 ; d Detroit, Mich., 23 July, 1854. 



"Jane Cordelia Frank m (2) at Goshen, N. Y., 19 December, i860, William 
Farrington Sharpe, of Goshen. 



loo Fourth Generation. 



(i8o) Margaret Houston, b Phillipsburgh, Orange Co., 
N. Y., i6 January, 1829; (living 1908 North 
Hackensack, N. J.) unui 

(181) Julia Ruth Houston 

(182) Maria Hozuard Hotiston 

(183) Adeline Miller Houston 

(184) Jane Harriet Houston 

(185) Henry Houston b Midclletown, N. Y., 28 Feb- 

ruary, 1846; d 28 April, 1846. 

(186) Samuel Houston 

55. Thomas Hodgkinson Howard^ b Hempstead, N. Y., 20 
December, i8i5;'9 d San Antonio, Texas, 26 January, 
1884, m (i) New Orleans, La., 23 June. 1847, Sarah 
Adelaide Harper (dau. of Thomas Baron Harper and 
Harriet Brown) b 1826; d New Orleans, La., i March, 
1852; m (2) Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 November, 1854, 
Annie McLean Gerard (dau. of Robert L Gerard) b 
New York City, 11 September, 1833; d New Orleans, 
La., 12 February, 1901. 

(187) Bnima Marie Howard b New Orleans, 7 April, 

1848 ; d 8 April, 1883 unm 

(188) Harriett May Howard b New Orleans, 28 Feb- 

ruary, 1850; d 23 October, 1859. 

(189) Innocence Hozuard b New Orleans, 20 February, 

1852; d 21 February, 1852 

(190) Sarah Harriet Adelaide Harper Hoivard b New 

Orleans, 14 September, 1855; d 21 July, 1856 

(191) Sidney Howard b New Orleans, 29 January, 

1857 ; d 29 October, 1859 

(192) Gerard Hoivard 

(193) Leigh Hoivard 

(194) Earl Howard b New Orleans, 2 October, 1864; 

d 4 May, 1903. 

(195) Lulu Howard 

( 196) Fay Howard 

(197) Chorley Hoivard b New Orleans, 20 June, 1871 ; 

(living 1905 Chicago, 111.) unm. 



Fourth Generation. loi 

57. Euphemia Maria Moffat^ b 29 December, 1810; bapt. 

Christ Church, New Brunswick, N. J., 15 March, 181 1 ; 
d 12 December, 1902; in New York City, 3 February, 
1828,7= John Shatsel b 9 April, 1804 ; d 28 January, 1841. 

(198) Anna Matilda Shatsel b 8 November, 1829; (liv- 

ing 1905 Lake City, Minn.) ttnm 

(199) William Shatsel b i January, 1833 ; d 2 Novem- 

ber, 1857, unm 

(200) John IV. Shatsel b 13 March, 1836; d 30 May, 

1 87 1, unm 

58. Edwin Curtis Moffat^ b Goshen, N. Y., 28 April, 182 1 ; 

d Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 January, i860; m New York City, 
19 September, 1848, Lucinda Foshay73 (dau. of Andrew 
Foshay) b 25 November, 183 1 ; (living 1905) 

(201) Caroline Halsey Moffat 

(202) Mary Curtis Moffat 

(203) Anthony Yelverton Moffat b 12 July, 1852; </ 

12 September, 185474 

(204) Bdivin Curtis Moffat 

(205) Julia Curtis Moffat 

(206) Euphemia Shatsel Moffat b 11 August, 1858; 

(living 1905 Brooklyn, N. Y.) unm 

59. Julia Curtis Moffat4 b 12 August, 1822; d 19 August. 

1871 ; m 21 October, 1847, August Henry ICilmmel b 
13 April, 1820; d 23 November, 1872 

(207) Emma Curtis Kiimmel b 28 February, 1852; 

d Williamsville, N. Y., 20 February, 1903 
unm 

(208) Mary Halsey Kiimmel 

61. Mary Emma Moffat^ b 24 May, 1829; (living 1905 
Youngstown, Ohio) ; m 10 April, 1851, Levi Osborne 
(son of White Osborne and Margaret) b 27 January, 



"New York Spectator of Friday, 8 February, 1828. 

"Lucinda Foshay tn (2) Brooklyn, N. Y.. 15 August 1880, James D. Rockwell. 

"New York Times of Wednesday, 13 September, 1854. 



102 Fourth Generation. 



1824; (living 1905 Yoiinsgtown, Ohio). 

(209) Julia Margarett Osborne b 14 January, 1852; 

(living 1905 Youngstown, Ohio) unm 

(210) George Shephard Osborne 

(211) Augusta Kummel Osborne 

(212) Emma Lena Osborne 

64. Mary Silence Moffat* b New York City, 16 July, 1813 ; d 

New York City, 26 May, 1880; m New York City, 6 
(May, 1840; John Allen (son of Cushing Allen and 
Elizabeth Trevette) b Bath, Maine, 4 September, 1802 ; 
d New York City, 22 January, 1887. 

(213) Arthur Moffat Allen 

(214) Charles Doughty Allen 

(215) Bessie Trevette Allen b New York City, 18 

March, 1846; d 10 April, 1864 unm 

(216) Mary Cushing Allen b New York City, 31 De- 

cember, 1847; d 14 May, 1855. 

(217) John Little Moffat Allen 

65. Adeline Margaret Moffat* h New York City, 19 June, 

1815; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 July, 1880; m New York 
City, 8 June, 1841, Joseph T. Curtis, M. D. (son of 
Thomas Curtis and Esther Bennett) b 29 January, 1815 ; 
d 13 November, 1857, 

(218) Jessie Curtis 

(219) Gram Curtis 

(220) Frank Curtis 

(221) Ernest Curtis 

67. Rueben Curtis Moffat, M. D.4 b Ithaca. N. Y., 11 De- 
cember, 1818; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 28 August. 1894; m 
Newark, N. J., 15 April, 1852, Elisabeth Virginia Bar- 
clay (dau. of George Brinley Barclay and Abigail Shaw) 
b Cranbury, N. J., 28 February, 1822 ; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 
26 May, 1892. 

(222) John Little Moifat 

(223) George Barclay Moffat 

(224) Edgar Victor Moffat 



Fourth Generation. 103 



(225) Ada Moffat 

(226) Lillian Moffat b 20 August, 1859; d Brooklyn, 

N. Y., II February, i860. 

(227) R. Burnham Moffat 

(228) Mabel Moffat b 26 March, 1863; d Brooklyn, 

N. Y., 30 July, 1863. 

(229) IVillie Partridge Moffat b 21 March, 1865; d 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 March, 1865. 

77. Julia E. A. ReiIIy4 b 9 February, i8i7;7s d 3 June, 1900 ;75 
m 15 October, 1837, William Saffln d 6 August, 1862.7s 

(230) Jane Blisa Saffin 

80. William Brinckerhoff Moffat, M. D.4 b New York City, 

17 March, 1818; d New York City, 11 April, 1862; m 
New York City i July, 1854,76 Julia Augusta Mitchell 
(dau. of Robert Mitchell) b 1831 ; d New York City 3 
September, 1866.77 

(231) Cora Moffat 

(232) Myra Moffat b New York City 7 August, 1856; 

(living 1908 New York City) unm 

81. Sophia Youngs Moffat^ b New York City, 21 December, 

1819; d Montgomery, Orange County, N. Y., 13 Jan- 
uary, 1865 ; m 18 October, 1842, John Minthorne Quack- 
enbos (son of Mangel M. Quackenbos and Juliana 
Maria) b 10 July, 1817; d Greenwich, Conn., 23 Octo- 
ber, 1895. 

(233) Sophia Moffat Quackenbos 

(234) Mangel Minthorne Quackenbos b 3 October, 

1845 ; d 6 June, 1849. 

(235) Ida Louisa Quackenbos b 5 July. 1847; d 28 

July, 185 1 

(236) John Minthorne Quackenbos 

(237) Charles Youngs Quackenbos b 26 October, 

1854 ; d 3 May, 1857. 



"Gravestone at Ronaldson Cemetery, Philadelphia. 

"New York Times of Tuesday, 4 July, 1854. 

"New York Times of Wednesday, 5 September, 1866. Also, recorda of Green- 
wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



I04 Fourth Generation. 



88. Jane Stewart Carpenter^ b New Utrecht, N. Y., 24 Feb- 
ruary, 1821; d 31 December, 1884; m New Utrecht, 
N. Y., 18 April, 1842, Cornelius Hanford Schapps, M. D. 
b 24 July, 1817; d New York City, 18 September, 1899. 

(238) Margaret Carpenter Schapps b i April, 1843 ; 

(living 1907 Duxbury, Mass.) unnt 

(239) Elizabeth Louise Schapps b i July, 1845 ; d 6 

November, 1869 unm 

(240) Mary Thompson Schapps b 8 March, 1847 ; d 11 

July, 1 85 1 

(241) Jane Anne Smith Schapps b 22 October, 1849; 

(living 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.,) unm 

(242) Rima Stewart Schapps b 25 May, 1852; d 14 

August, 1853. 

(243) Marion Cornelia Schapps 

(244) JoJm Carpenter Schapps 

(245) Helen Rosalie Stewart Schapps 

89. Mary Carpenter^ b New Utrecht, N. Y., 26 October, 
1822; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 August, 1887; m New 
Utrecht, N. Y., 28 October, 1846, Rev. Alexander Ram- 
sey Thompson, D. D., b New York City, 16 October, 
1822 ; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 February, 1895. 

(246) Janette Nexson Thompson b 8 December, 1847; 

d 20 July, 1904 unm 

(247) John Carpenter Thompson b 8 December, 1849; 

d 7 August, 185 1 

(248) Mary Carpenter Thompson b 3 November, 185 1 ; 

(living 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.) unm 

(249) Alexander Ramsey Thompson 

(250) Margaret Carpenter Thompson 

(251) William Robert Thompson 

(252) Hugh Carpenter Thompson b 10 January, i860; 

d 21 December, 1861 

(253) Charles Johnson Thompson b 13 February. 

1862; d 13 February, 1862. 



Fourth Generation. 105 

90. Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, D. DA b New Utrecht, 

N. Y., 5 June, 1824; (/ Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 March, 
1899; m Milford, Penn., 12 November, 1845,7^ Louisa 
Brodhcad (dan. of John Heiner Brodhead and Louisa 
Ross) b Milford, Penn., 25 August, 1825 ;78 d Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 8 April, 1889.79 

(254) John Carpenter b 17 /Vugust, 1846;^° d 6 Feb- 

ruary, 1847^"^ 

(255) Louisa Carpenter 

(256) Hugh Smith Carpenter b 4 December, 1849;^° 

d 7 October. 1853.8° 

(257) Alexander Thompson Carpenter b 14 September, 

1850 ;8' d 2 June, 1894 itnui 

(258) Ernest Carpenter b 11 January, 1853 ;8' d 27 

October, 1878^- umn 

(259) Roszvell H. Carpenter 

(260) Margaret Carpenter b 6 August, 1859 f^ d 22 

February, 1864.^3 

(261) Augustus Brodhead Carpenter b 4 March, 

1863 ;84 (J 10 December, 1863.^4 

91. Rima Stewart Carpenter4 b New Utrecht, N. Y., 16 May, 
1826; d New York City 2 August, 1878 ;8s m New 
Utrecht, N. Y., 21 September, 1853,^^ Gillette Alvord 
Clarke (son of George S. Clarke and Louise Alvord)87 
b 1827:88 d Brooklyn, N. Y.. 16 September, 1858.88 
O. S. P. 



'^History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, Penn., page 674. 
"New York Times of Thursday, 11 April, 1889. 

soGravestone in the yaid of the old Dutch Church at New Utrecht, now a part 
of the Borough of Brooklyn City of New York. 

'•Records of the Canal Street, New York City, Presbyterian Church. 

«=New York Times of Tuesday, 29 October, 1878. 

"^New York Times of Tuesday, 23 February. 1864. 

s^New York Times of Saturday, 12 December, 1863. 

8'New York Times of Sunday, 4 August, 1878. 

scnew York Times of Friday, 23 September, 1853. 

*'Stiles History of Windsor, Conn. 

^New York Times of Saturday, 18 September, 1858. 



io6 Fourth Generation. 



94. Mary Isabella Moffat4 b Dryden, N. Y., 13 October, 

1844; (living 1908 Hudson, Wis.); ni Hudson, Wis., 
26 December, 1871, Thomas Hughes b Liverpool, Eng., 
31 May, 1848; (living 1908 Hudson, Wis.)- 

(262) Thomas Moffat Hughes b Hudson, Wis., 20 

August, 1873; (living 1908) unm 

(263) John Moffat Hughes b Hudson, Wis., 26 

August, 1878; (living 1908) unm 

95. Addison Moffat Scott^ b Etna, N. Y., 20 February, 1843 > 

(living 1908 Charleston, West Va.) ; m New York City, 
14 November, 1907, Florence Jeroloman (dau. of John 
Jeroloman) b 26 December, 1876; (living 1908) S. P. 

96. Eugene H. Scott^ b Dryden Hill, N. Y., 26 July, 1845 5 

(living 1907 Cortland, N. Y.) ; w (i) Etna, N. Y., 20 
December, 1866, Emma J. Morgan b Dryden, N. Y., 10 
June, 1846; d Danby, N. Y., 12 February, 1873; m (2) 
Springport, Cayuga Co., N. Y., 22 December, 1874, 
Joanna L. Lowry b Springport, N. Y., 11 May, 1840; 
(living 1907) 

(264) Cora Belle Scott b 15 September, 1867; d 13 

June, 1870 

(265) Katie Romelia Scott b 3 February, 1869; d 2 

June, 1870. 

(266) Margaret Lovenia Scott 

(267) Edith Mary Scott b Dryden, N. Y., 26 April, 

1872; d Syracuse, N. Y., 17 August, 1893 unm 

(268) James Chaimcey Scott b 14 October, 1875 ; d 27 

December, 1875. 

(269) Maria Lowry Scott b Cortland, N. Y., 30 May, 

1878; (living 1907 Cortland, N. Y.) unm 

(270) Virginia Lewis Scott 

98. Katharine Ann Scott^ b Dryden Hill, N. Y., 14 May, 
1850; (living 1908 Cortland, N. Y.) ; m Dryden Hill, 
N. Y., 26 December, 1888, Almon Sanders b Cortland, 
N. Y., 27 December, 1843; (living 1908) Cortland, 
N. Y.). S. P. 



Fourth Generation. io7 



lOO. Adelbert Chauncey Scott* b Dryden, N. Y., 5 July, 1859 ; 
living 1908 Cortland, N. Y.) ; m Cortland, N. Y., 26 
December, 1883, Flora Curtis b Cortland, N. Y., 9 Sep- 
tember, 1854; (living 1908 Cortland, N. Y.)- 

(271) Clara Isabella Scott b 28 February, 1886; d 18 

March, 1892 

(272) William Addison Scott b Dryden Hill, N. Y., 6 

May, 1889; (living 1908) 

(273) Harold Curtis Scott b Dry^den, N. Y., i Novem- 

ber, 1897; (living 1908). 



102. 



Ellen Elizabeth Moffat* b 3 January, 1848 ; (living 1908 
Eau Claire, Wis.) ; m 24 June, 1886, Juliiis Granger In- 
gram b 31 May, 1832; (living 1908 Eau Claire, Wis.)- 

(274) Margaret Moffat Ingram b 18 January, 1888; 

(living 1908) 

103. Harriet Louisa Moffat* b 30 May, 1855; (living 1905 
Saugatuck, Mich.) ; m 14 September, 1876, Charles B. 
Bird b 24 April, 1855; (living 1905 Saugatuck, Mich.) 

(275) Harry Moffat Bird 

(276) Charles B. Bird b 30 November, 1879; (living 

1905) unm 

(277) Helen Bird b 9 January, 1888; d 2 January, 

1889. 

(278) Ha::el Laura Bird b 14 June, 189 1 ; (living 

1905) 

(279) Carey Hanchett Bird b i June, 1894; (livmg 

1905) 

(280) Alita Bird b 25 November, 1897; (livmg 1905) 

(281) John Moffat Bird b 29 November, 1899; (living 

1905) 

104. Carrie May Moffat* b 29 June, 1865 ; (living 1905 Sault 
Ste Marie, Mich.) ; w 12 October, 1886, Arthur Mac- 
Millan b St. Joseph, Mich., 17 November, 1865 ; (living 
1905 Sault Ste Marie, Mich.). 

(282) Arthur Samuel MacMUlan b Tacoma, Wash., 

25 September, 1891 ; (living 1905) 



io8 Fourth Generation. 



(283) May Ruth MacMillan b Kalamazoo, Mich., 30 

March, 1897; (living 1905) 

(284) Carrie Mabel MacMillan b Sault Ste Marie, 

Mich., I July, 1905; (living 1905) 

105. Florence Maria Moffat^ b Etna, N. Y., 5 September, 

1846; d Sault Ste Marie. Mich., 26 June, 1886; m Etna, 
N. Y., 26 June, 1873, Blon J. Hall b Almont, Mich., 23 
December, 1845 : d Sault Ste Marie, Mich., 26 Decem- 
ber, 1905. 

(285) Nelson Alonco Hall 

(286) Fred Moffat Hall b St. Clair, Mich., 16 June, 

1882; (living 1906) imm 

106. Maria Isabella Moffat^ b River Falls, Wis., 14 February, 

1861 ; (living 1906 Hopewell, N. J.) ; m (as Maria 
Van Home) at Trenton, N. J.. 13 April, 1903,^9 John J. 
Bcatty.'f 

108. Sarah Frances Moffat* b Dryden, N. Y., 4 July, 1847; 

(living 1905 Washington, D. C.) ; ni Washington, D. C, 
17 'December, 1868, John A. Van Doren b 22 July, 1843 ; 
d II May, 1894. 

(287) William Addison Van Doren 

(288) Carrie Aletta Van Doren 

(289) Charles Lansing Van Doren 

(290) Bmma May Van Doren b Washington, D. C, 

10 October, 1882; (living 1905 Washington, 
D. C.) nnm 

109. Carrie Isabella Moffat* b Dryden, N. Y., 4 February, 

1849; (living 1905 Washington, D. C.) ; m Washing- 
ton, D. C, 16 July, 1870. Francis Fleishell b Baltimore, 
Md., I March, 1844; (living 1905). S. P. 



891 



»r.ureau of Vital Statistics, Trenton, N. J. Rachel A. Ferrell. mother of 
Maria Isabella Moffat, had a sister Maria who married a Van Home. 



Fourth Generation. ^°9 



no. William Herbert Moffat* b 9 January, 1852; d 30 May, 
1901 ; m 7 January, 187 1, Susan Frances Callan b Wash- 
ington, D. C, 22 November, 1854; (Hving 1906 Bladens- 

burg, Md.).^° 

(291) Herbert John Moffat 

(292) William Addison Moffat 

(293) Paul Chester Moffat b 19 August, 1876; (living 

1906) unm 

(294) Albert Grace Moffat 

(295) Daisy Bertha Moffat 

(296) Susie May Moffat 

(297) Arthur Louis Moffat 

(298) Lily Moffat b 11 April, 1887; (living 1906) unm 

(299) Raymond E. Moffat b 12 June, 1889; (living 

1906 Washington, D. C.) 

(300) Edith Grace Moffat b 27 February, 1892; (living 

1906) 

(301) Louisa Estelle Moffat b 18 January, 1895; (liv- 

ing 1906) 

(302) Elsie Wells Moffat b 23 June, 1897; (living 

1906). 

111. Algernon Sydney Moffat* b 22 December. 1871 ; (living 

1905) ; w 15 September, 1890, Rosina Kirk b 12 Sep- 
tember, 1871 ; (living 1905) 

(303) Grace M. Moffat b 15 July, 1891 ; d 19 April, 

1905. 

(304) Daniel J. Moffat b 24 February, 1893; (living 

1906) 

(305) Bertha E. Moffat b 31 December, 1902; (living 

1906) 

112. Francis Moffat Young* h Prescott, Wis., 4 November, 

i860; (living 1905); rn Prescott, Wis., 3 December. 
1884, Alice Lezvis Wheeler b 20 May, 1861 ; (hvmg 

1905)- 

.iii^Frances Callan m (2) Robert L. Reed of Bladensburg Md. 



iio Fourth Generation. 



(306) Edith Leivis Young b Prescott, Wis., 30 August, 

1888; (living 1905) 

(307) Francis Arthur Young b Minneapolis, Minn., 7 

August, 1891 ; (living 1905) 

114. Mary Edith Young4 b Prescott, Wis., 21 July, 1866; (liv- 
ing 1905 Minneapolis, Minn.) ; m Minneapolis, Minn., 
23 January, 1901, John Hislop b Waterloo Co., Ontario, 
10 February, 1856; d Chicago, 111., 22 February, 1901. 
S. P. 

n6. George Pierson* b Hamptonburg, Orange Co., N. Y., i 
January, 1824; d Campbell Hall, Orange Co., N. Y., 2 
December, 1908; m 20 December, 1848, Mary Elizabeth 
Thompson b Hamptonburg, N. Y., 18 January, 1822; d 
Hamptonburg, N. Y., 5 November, 1895. 

(308) Mary Kate Pier son 

(309) Sarah Jennie Pierson b. 18 August, 1855; d 21 

April, 1861. 

(310) George Murray Pierson 

(311) Margaret Anna Pierson 

120. William Henry Pierson4 b Hamptonburg, Orange Co., 
N. Y., 28 April, 1830; d 21 April, 1904; m i October, 
1862, Elisabeth Bull b Hamptonburg, N. Y., 19 October, 
1841 ; (living 1907 Campbell Hall, Orange Co., N. Y.) 

(312) JJenry Pierson b 30 September, 1863; d 3 No- 

vember, 1893 unm 

(313) Susan Pierson 

(314) Lucile Pierson 

(315) Jane Bull Pierson b 12 July 1875; (living 1907 

Campbell Hall, N. Y.) unm 

124. Pierson Moffat Otis^ b 23 November, 1829; (living 1907 
Bloomingburgh, Sullivan Co., N. Y.) ; m 21 January, 
1868, Elisabeth G. Evans b 13 May, 1842; (living 1907) 

(316) William Pierson Otis b 9 March, 1869; (living 

1907 Bloomingburgh, N. Y.) unm 

(317) Bertha Louise Otis b 11 September, 1871 ; (liv- 

ing 1907 Bloomingburgh, N. Y.) unm 



Fourth Generation. m 

126. Galen Otis* b 18 March, 1833; (living 1907 Howells, 

Orange Co., N. Y.) ; m 6 October, 1863, Martha S. Dol- 
son (dau. of Theophilus Dolson and Cecilia Hathaway) 
h Dolsontown, Orange Co., N. Y., 26 September, 1841 ; 
(living 1907) 

(318) Elisabeth Otis b 31 July, 1864; (living 1907 

Bloomfield, N. J.) 

(319) Frederick Pierson Otis b 17 December, 1865; 

(living 1907 Chico, Cal.) unm 

(320) Josephine Hathaway Otis b 11 January, 1868; d 

9 April, 1872 

(321) Galen Otis b 20 April, 1870; d 3 February, 1872. 

(322) Grace Otis 

127. Josiah Otis* b ly March, 1835 ; d 18 August, 1895 ; w (i) 

at Howells, Orange Co., N. Y., 31 October, 1861, Mary 
E. Bertholf b Howells, N. Y., 2 May, 1841 ; d 11 May, 
1869; m (2) at Howells, N. Y., 26 October, 1870; Eliza- 
beth Wickham Bertholf b Howells, N. Y., 2 September, 
1851; (living 1907 Chester, Orange Co., N. Y.) 

(323) Sophia P. Otis 

(324) John B. Otis 

(325) Mary E. Otis b 31 July, 1866; (living 1907 

Florida, N. Y.) unni 

(326) Wilmot Otis 

(327) Lona Otis 

(328) Charlie Otis b 21 July, 1874; ti 15 September, 

1874. 

(329) Clara C. Otis b 3 September, 1875 ; (living 1907 

Chester, N. Y.) unm 

(330) Estelle Otis b 22 December, 1878; (living 1907 

Chester, N. Y.) tmm 

(331) Daisy Otis 

131. John Pierson* b 13 September, 1834; (living 1907 Otis- 
ville, Orange Co., N. Y.) ; ni (i) 30 December, 1863, 
Elisabeth Y. Halscy b 8 September. 1837 ; d 20 Decem- 
ber, 1872; m (2) 26 November, 1873, Hannah Elizabeth 
Harlozv b 2 August, 1845; d 5 August, 1883; m (3) 4 



112 Fourth Generation. 

September, 1889, Sorah EUsaheth White (widow of 
John Vail Harlow) h 2 February, 1844; (living 1907). 

(332) Silas Gilbert Pierson 

(333) Pi'diik Halsey Pierson b 23 January, 1868; (liv- 

ing 1907) t4nm 

(334) John Moffat Pierson b 15 September, 1869; (liv- 

ing 1907) unm 

(335) Helen Garthzvaite Pierson 

(336) Corlinda Bartlett Pierson b 14 October, 1876; 

(living 1907) unm 

(337) Salome Cook Pierson b 30 March, 1880; (living 

1907) unm 

(338) Susan Coriuin Pierson b 22 March, 1882 ; (living 

1907) unm 



132. Harriet Newell Pierson^ b 2 September, 1837 ; d 20 July, 
1897; m 4 November, 1857, Alsop W. Dodge b 5 Jan- 
uary, 1834; (living 1907 Middletown, N. Y.) 

(339) Algernon Sidney Dodge b 8 July, i860; (living 

1907) unm 

(340) Gilbert Pierson Dodge b 19 September, 1862; 

(living 1907) unm 

(341) Allie C. Dodge (a son) b 5 January, 1870; d 29 

May, 1 87 1 

134. Mary C. Howe* b 28 July, 1833 ; (living 1906 Brooklyn, 

N. Y.) ; m (i) 15 September, 1853, Henry L. Weller 
(son of Henry Weller and Sally Sears) b Montgomery, 
Orange Co., N. Y., 22 January, 1826; d Montgomery, 
N. Y., 15 October, 1853; m (2) 17 June, 1858, Charles 
Widdifteld (son of William Widdifield and Elizabeth 
Brittan) b Philadelphia, Penn., 5 July, 1820; d New 
York City, 17 September, 1869. 

(342) Florence Widdifield 

135. Harriet Augusta Howe* b 16 December, 1835 ; d 8 August, 

1892 ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 8 April, 1862, William James 
Gilbert b 27 April, 1814; d 11 May, 1884. 

(343) Benjamin Howe Gilbert 



Fourth Generation. ^^S 



(344) George Cooper Gilbert 

(345) IVilliam Higgins Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 

I June, 1868; (living 1906) unm 

(346) Elisabeth J. Gilbert 

(347) Hester Ann Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 19 

April, 1872; (living 1906) nnm 

136. Josephine E. Howe* b 30 May, 1838; (living 1906 Dor- 
chester, Mass.) ; m 27 June, 1859, Eber Whitmore b 20 
January, 1820; d 29 September, 1888. 

(348) Clara Whitmore 

(349) Frederick B. Whitmore b 18 December, 1861 ; 

(living 1906) unm 

(350) Albert H. Whitmore 

(351) Edzvard K. Whitmore b 20 February, 1872; 

(living 1906) nnm 

(352) Eber Whitmore b 30 May, 1868 ; d 20 February, 

1870 

137. George B. Howe* b 5 October, 1841 ; d New York City, 9 
December, 1905 ; m 28 April, 1865, Julia Andrezvs b 22 
March, 1848; (living 1906 New York City). 

(353) Josephine E. Hozve b i January, 1867; (living 

1906) unm 

(354) Walter B. Hozve b 22 February, 1869; d 18 

June, 1869 

(355) Mortimer B. JJozi'e b 7 April, 187 1 ; d 20 July, 

1892 unm 

(356) Ethel J. Hozve 

138. Bezaleel Howe Dupignac* b 13 May, 1821 ; d 17 October, 
1887; m 16 February, 1879, Rosa Henrietta Stephanie 
Hemse b 27 January, 1857; (living 1906 Newark, 

N. J.) 

(357) Bezaleel Hozve Dupigmc b 14 March, 1880; 

(living 1906 Newark, N. J.) wun 

(358) Eugene P. Dupignac b 2.7 October, 1886; (living 

1906 Newark, N. J.) 



114 Fourth Generation. 



153. Almira Dupignac^ b 17 February, 1842; d 10 July, 1905; 

m 20 March, 1872, George W. Van Biiskirk b 24 June, 
1844; d 16 March, 1906. O. S. P. 

154. Adelaide Morse Dupignac^ b 15 April, 1843; (living 

1906) ; m 24 November, 1859, George Henry Holbrook 
b 1838 ; d Woodside, Newark, N. J., 28 October, 1883. 

(359) Frank Howard Holbrook b 17 October, i860; d 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 8 October, 1862. 

(360) William Henry Holbrook b 8 December, 1862; 

d Brooklyn, N. Y., 5 June, 1865. 

(361) George Henry Holbrook b i January, 1865; m 

and living 1906! 

(362) Anna Maria Holbrook b 29 August, 1867; d 

Newark, N. J., 21 January, 1888 unm 

(363) Wellington B. Holbrook b 15 February, 1869; d 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 28 July, 1869 

(364) Almira D. Holbrook b 20 January, 1871 ; d 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 23 July, 1872. 

(365) Florence Louise Holbrook b 31 March, 1873; 

(living 1906) unm 

(366) Arthur Huyser Holbrook b 15 December, 1881 ; 

(living 1906) unm 

157. Frances Ramadge Howe* b New York City, 10 August, 
1839; d 7 April, 1869; m 18 September, 1859, Rev. 
John Andrew Munroc (son of Rev. Jonathan Munroe 
and Matilda Reiser) b Annapolis, Md., 15 June, 1834- 
d 30 October, 1897. 

(367) Francis Howe Munroe 

(368) Harry Reiser Munroe 

(369) Milbourne Munroe 

(370) George Rozvland Munroe 

(371) Clinton Munroe b Newark, N. J., 29 November, 

1873; (living 1906) unm 

(372) John Herbert Munroc b Port Jervis. N. Y., 19 

January, 1877; d 13 March, 1877. 

(373) Percy Munroe b Patterson, N. J., 8 October, 

1878; d 15 December, 1878. 



Fourth Generation. ^^S 



159. John Morgan Howe, M. DA b New York City, 19 Octo- 

ber, 1844; (living- 1909 New York City) ; m Patterson, 
N. J., 17 October, 1866, Bmma Roe (dau. of David Roe 
and Emma Eliza Blois) b 31 October, 1841 ; d 28 Sep- 
tember, 1904. 

(374) Grace Howe b Passaic, N. J., 13 April, 1868; 

(living 1909 New York City) unm 

(375) Bthel Howe 

(376) Bertha Hoive b Passaic, N. J., 9 March, 1872 ; d 

19 March, 1875 

(377) Morgan Roe Howe 

(378) Alma Hozve b Asbury Park, N. J., 17 July, 

1881 ; (living 1909 New York City) unm 

160. George Rowland Howe^ b New York City, 21 October, 

1847; (living 1906 Newark, N. J.) ; m Homer, N. Y., 
II June, 1879, Louisa Anna Barber (dau. of Paris Bar- 
ber and Jane Eno) b ii January, 1854; (living 1906). 

(379) George Rozvland Hozve b Newark, N. J., 20 

December, 1880; d 26 September, 1881. 

(380) Herbert Barber Howe b Newark, N. J., 25 Oc- 

tober, 1882; (living 1906) wnm 

(381) Ruth Bno Hozve b Newark, N. J., 22 April, 

1886; (living 1906) unm 

161. Edwin Jenkins Howe, M. 0.4 b Orange, N. J., 2 July, 

1849; d 14 March, 1905 ; m Passaic, N. J., 18 November, 

1875, Sarah Louise Simmons (dau. of Henry P. Sim- 
mons and Sarah Van Wagoner Shelp) b. Passaic, N. J.. 
26 November, 1848 ; d Morris Plains, N. J., 2 July, 1906. 
O. S. P. 

162. Charles Mortimer Howe^ b New York City, i May, 185 1 ; 

(living 1909 Passaic, N. J.) ; m Bath, N. Y., 12 October, 

1876, Margaret Ida Caniield (dau. of Caleb Augustus 
Canfield and Sarah Hall Withington) b 14 September, 
1854; (living 1906). 

(382) Bdith Hozve 

(383) John Can field Hozve b Passaic, N. J., 16 Sep- 

tember, 1880; (living 1906) unm 



ii6 Fourth Generation. 



163. Ella Louise Howe^ b New York City, 16 November, 

1852; d 2 June, 1896; w (i) Passaic, N. J., 20 June, 
1874, Ansel Bartlet Maxim (son of Thomas Maxim and 
Mary A. Gurney) h South Carver, Mass., 8 September, 
1836; d Passaic, N. J., 24 April, 1886; m (2) 16 May, 
1894, Byron David Halsted (the widower of her de- 
ceased sister, Susan Elanora Howe. See No. 165 be- 
low) b 7 June,. 1852; (living 1906 New Brunswick, 

N.J.) 

(384) Mary Hozve Maxim b 18 March, 1879; (livmg 

1906 Passaic, N. J.) 

(385) Ella Hozi'c Halsted b 31 May, 1896; (living 

1906) 

1^4. Emeline Jenkins Howe^ b Passaic, N. J., i June, 1856; 
(living 1906 Passaic, N. J.) ; m Passaic, N. J., i June, 
1876, David Carlisle (son of Rev. John Carlisle and 
•Maria Harper) Z? Lisburn, Ireland, 27 May, 1844; d 
Passaic, N. J., 10 September, 1903. 

(386) Emeline Carlisle 

(387) Anna Carlisle b Passaic, N. J., 10 August, 

1880; (living 1906) unm 

(388) Marion Carlisle b Passaic, N. J., 8 June, 1883; 

(living 1906) imm 

(389) John Hozve Carlisle b Passaic, N. J., 5 July, 

1887; (living 1906) 

165. Susan Elanora Howe^ b Passaic, N. J., 18 October, 1858; 

d Passaic, N. J., 15 December, 1890; m Passaic, N. J., 

7 January, 1883, Byron David Halsted^' (son of David 

Halsted and Mary Mechem) b Venice, Cayuga Co., 

■ N. Y., 7 June, 1852; (living 1906 New Brunswick, 

N.J.)' 

(390) Claire Halsted b Passaic, N. J., 18 October, 

1883; (living 1906 New Brunswick, N. J.) 
unm 

(391) Edzvin Hozve Hoisted b Passaic, N. J.. 27 Jan- 

uary, 1888; (living 1906). 



»'Byron David Halsted m (2) his deceased wife's sister, Ella IvOuise Howe, 
widow of Ansel Bartlet Maxim. See No. 163 in the table. 



Fifth Generation. "7 



i66. Jane Augusta Spelman^ b Ogdensburg, N. Y., 4 August, 
1832; d 13 December, 1894; in iS December, 1851, 
James M. Fuller, b 4 June, 1823 ; d Mamaroneck, N. Y., 
24 May, 1885. 

(392) Caroline Augusta Fuller 

(393) Kate Helena Fuller 

(394) James Malcolm Fuller b New York City, 18 

July, 1858; (living 1906) unm 

(395) Mary S. Fuller 

168. Mary Wakona Spelman4 b New York City, 19 Septem- 

ber, 1836; d Mamaroneck, N. Y., 22 July, 1874; m 11 
October, i860, Charles P. Cummings b New York City, 
7 November, 1834; d 19 August, 1879. 

(396) Mary Wakona Cummings 

(397) Florence Augusta Cummings 

169. Jacob Frank Howe, M. D 4 b New York City, 20 April, 

1848; (living 1906 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; ni Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 19 May, 1884, Helena Meserole Ward'^- (dau. of 
Charles G. Ward) b July, 1863; (living 1906). S. P. 

170. Daniel Kellogg Leitch5 b 28 September, 1834; d 24 

August, 1885; m 31 January, 1867, Lavinia Isbcll (dau. 
of Charles Bela Isbell and Harriett Belden Woodruff, 
both of Milford. Conn.) b 17 January, 1838; (living 
1907 Skaneateles, N. Y.). S. P. 

176. Adeline MillerS b 10 April, 1836; d 18 August, 1901 ; m 
5 June, 1855, Amos Fenton b 15 October. 1822 ; d 9 May, 

189 1. 

(398) Sarah Miller Fenton 

(399) Edzvard M. Fenton 

(400) John M. Fenton 

(401) Amos Case Fenton b 31 August, 1869; (living 

1905 Seattle, Washington) unm 

»2Dr Jacob Frank Howe was divorced from his wife on May, iS, J8q8. In 
June of the same year she married Alvah A. Brown, who died by his own hand 
in .900. In September, 1903, she married Dr. James H. O'Neill bf Brooklyn, N. Y. 



ii8 Fifth Generation. 



177. Philip Grant MillerS h 22 January, 1841 ; d 9 October, 

1897; m 7 November, 1866, Susan A. Stryker b 18 Sep- 
tember, 1848; d 13 August, 1895. 

(402) Susan Dell Miller 

178. Harriet MillerS b 5 December, 1834; (living 1907 Elmira, 

N. Y.) ; m 7 June, 1865, Addison P. Roberts b 5 Octo- 
ber, 1837; (living 1907 Elmira, N. Y.). 

(403) Edward Miller Roberts 

179. Henry Clay Miller^ b 2 April, 1847; (living 1905 Fre- 

mont, Ind.) ; in 28 August, 1877, Elvira L. Poland b 9 
September, 1852; (living 1905) S. P. 

181. Julia Ruth HoustonS b Phillipsburgh, Orange Co., N. Y., 

10 November, 1830; d Brooklyn, N. Y., i June, 1895; 
m Brooklyn, N. Y., 20 November, 1850, Caleb Lazvson 
Smith b New York City, 20 November, 1830; d Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., 20 April, 1890. 

(404) Henry Houston Smith b Brooklyn, N. Y., 10 

March, 1852; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 Novem- 
ber, 1855 

(405) Mary Houston Woglom Smith 

(406) Elbert Porter Smith b Brooklyn, N. Y.. 4 

August, i860; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 March, 
1885 unm 

(407) Lillie Hulst Smith 

182. Maria Howard Houston^ b Phillipsburgh, Orange Co., 

N. Y., I September. 1834; d New York City, 15 April, 
1866; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 April, i860, Edzvard Ben- 
nett b 8 November, 1832.! O. S. P. 

183. Adeline Miller Houston^ b Mechanicstown, Orange Co., 

N. Y., 15 August, 1838 ; (living 1907 Jersey City, N. J.) ; 
m Brooklyn, N. Y., 19 April, 1857, Charles Atwood 
Burgher b Staten Island, N. Y., 4 January, 1839 ; (living 
1907 Jersey City, N. J.) 

(408) Mary Burgher b i May, 1863 ; d i July, 1863. 



Fifth Generation. ^^9 



(409) Mabel Burgher b 4 May, 1865; (living 1907) 

unm 

(410) Frank Burgher 

(411) Margaret Houston Burgher 

(412) Charles Atzvood Burgher b 27 March, 1874; 

(living 1907) unm 

(413) Harry Johnson Burgher b 8 June, 1876; (liv- 

ing 1907) unm 

184. Jane Harriet HoustonS b Mechanicstown, Orange Co., 
N. Y., 6 December, 1840; c/ Brooklyn, N. Y., 11 Septem- 
ber, 1879 ;93 m New York City, 11 July, 1867, John At- 
wood Burgher b Staten Island, N. Y., 11 December, 
1847 ;94 d Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 May, 1903.9s 

(414) Frank Houston Burgher 

(415) John Atwood Burgher b 25 March, 1874 ;9« d 

17 January, 1876.97 

(416) Eleanor Atwood Burgher 

186. Samuel HoustonS b Middletown, N. Y., 4 April, 1848 ; d 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 October, 1889; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 
3 April, 1873, Elisabeth Jane Szuan b New York City, 
17 June, 1853; (living 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.). 

(417) Harry Clay Houston 

(418) George Baker Houston 

192. Gerard Howards ^ New Orleans, La., 20 August, 1859; 
(living 1907 New Orleans, La.) ; m Biloxi, Miss., 2 Sep- 
tember, 1884, Florence Nightingale Flecttvood (dau. of 
William E. Fleetwood and Josephine Pinckard) b 30 
June, 1865; (living 1907 New Orleans, La.). 

(419) Florence Nightingale Hozvard b 10 November, 

1885; (living 1907) unm 



"New York Herald of Friday, 12 September, 1879- 

"Records of the United Brethren Congregation (Moravian) at New Uorp, 
Staten Island. From the Register of Interments at Cypress Hills Cemetenr. how- 
ever, the date of birth of John Atwood Burgher would be 24 October. 1849- 

•'New York Herald of Saturday, 23 May, 1903. 

"Register of Interments, Cypress Hills Cemetery. 

•^New York Herald of Thursday, 20 January, 1876. 



I20 Fifth Generation. 



(420) Maud May Howard b i September, 1887; (liv- 

ing 1907) unm 

(421) Harry Gerard Howard b 29 December, 1889; 

(living 1907). 

(422) Pinkie Ernestine Howard b 17 July, 1892; (liv- 

ing 1907) 

(423) Edwin Charles Hozvard b 12 August, 1894; d 

22 May, 1898. 

(424) William McKinley Howard b i December, 1896; 

(living 1907) 

(425) Myrtle Annie Howard b 6 February, 1898; (liv- 

ing 1907) 

193. Leigh Howard^ b New Orleans, La.. 25 May, 1862; (liv- 
ing 1907 New Orleans, La.) ; m Eagle Pass, Texas, 29 
December, 1879, Marie Levice b Matamoras, Mexico, 4 
March, 1862; (living 1907 New Orleans, La.). 

(426) Ernest Roivc Hozvard b Eagle Pass, Texas, 2 

April, 1881 ; (living 1907)! 

195. Lulu Howards 5 Summit, Miss., 12 January, 1867; d New 

Orleans, La., i May, 1903 ; m New Orleans, La. 14 
October, 1889,98 Ernest E. Zebal (living 1907). f 

(427) Thomas Howard Zebal b 31 March, 1891 •,^^ 

(living 1907) 

(428) Eugenia Ernestine Zebal b 29 June, 1892 ;98 

(living 1907) 

(429) Earl Zebal b 2 September, 1894; d 2 June, 1896. 

(430) Harold Zebal b 13 August, 1896; (living 1907) 

(431) Anna Zebal b 12 October, 1900; (living 1907) 

196. Fay Howard^ b New Orleans, 12 April, 1869; d New 

Orleans, La., 9 October, 1902 ; m 5 August, 1886, Rich- 
ard Cole Hazvkins b New Orleans, La., 25 August, 
1862; (living 1907 New Orleans, La.) 

(432) Richard Cole Hawkins b 29 October, 1887; (liv- 

ing 1907) 



"Records of the Board of Health of the City of New Orleans. 



Fifth Generation. 121 



(433) Florence Anna Hawkins b 17 August, 1889; 

(living 1907) 

(434) Bmnia Fein Hazvkins b 24 August, 1891 ; (liv- 

ing 1907) 

(435) f^oy Eugenia Hawkins b 10 October, 1893; (liv- 

ing 1907) 

(436) Joseph Daniel Hawkins b 20 December, 1895 ; d 

I January, 1896. 

(437) Adelaide Augusta Hawkins b 10 March, 1898; 

(living 1907) 

(438) Vera Sarah Ha-wkiiis b 10 March, 1900; (liv- 

ing 1907). 

201. Caroline HaSsey Moffat^ b 24 May, 1849; (living 1905 

Brooklyn, N. Y.,) ; ;;/ 20 June. 1872, Thomas Woolson 
Lowell b 26 May, 1841 ; d 3 June, 1898. 

(439) Alice Child Lozuell b 17 March, 1873; (Hving 

1905 Brooklyn,. N. Y.) nnm 

(440) Florence Lncinda Lozi'ell 

202. Mary Curtis Moffat^ b 7 October, 1850; (living 1905 

Brooklyn, N. Y. ) ; m 29 September, 1874, Henry Austin 
Cross b 2 February, 1841 ; (living 1905). 
• (441) Harry Moffat Cross b 3 March, 1881 ; (living 
1905) nnm 

204. Edwin Curtis Moffat^ b 6 July, 1854; (living 1905) ; m 
25 May, 1880, Aline Adelaide Graves^^ (dau. of Robert 
Graves) b 30 September, i860; (living 1905 Larch- 
mont, N. Y.). 

(442) Robert Graves Moffat b 5 February, 1881 ; d 

II March, 1887 

(443) Edzvin Curtis Moffat b 11 October, 1887; (liv- 

ing 1905) 
"' (444) Caeserine Roma Moffat b 14 December, 1891 ; 

(living 1905). 
(445) Helene Moffat b 12 November, 1895; (living 
1905) 



"'Mrs. Edwin Curtis Moffat obtained a divorce from her husband with custody 
of the children. It is believed that he married again. 



122 Fifth Generation. 



205. Julia Curtis Moflfat^ b 5 August, 1856; (living 1905 
Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m 8 October, 1878, Charles P. Heit- 
kamp b 19 January, 1852; (living 1905 Brooklyn, N. Y.) 

(446) Helen Louise Heitkamp 

(447) Ernest Louis Heitkamp b i June, 1881 ; (liv- 

ing 1905) 

(448) Aline Heitkamp b 27 March, 1885; (living 

1905) 

208. Mary Halsey Kii'mmelS b 20 August, 1853; (living 1908 
Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m Milwaukee, Wis., 7 June, 1882, 
David W. Perkins'°° (son of Zebulon W. Perkins) b 
Rome, N. Y., 10 May, 1816; d Milwaukee, Wis., 18 
August, 1884. S. P. 

210. George Shephard OsborneS b 21 July, 1853; (living 

1905) ; m 2 October, 1879, Olive R. Bellinger b 3 Oc- 
tober, i860; (living 1905). 

(449) Eugene Clinton Osborne b 6 December, 1880; 

(living 1905) unm 

(450) Norman Bellinger Osborne b 20 July, 1884; 

(living 1905) unm 

(451) Marion Osborne b 22 July, 1887; (living 1905) 

unm 

211. Augusta Kii'mme! OsborneS b 16 May, 1857; (living 

1905) ; m 19 January, 1887, Arlington A. Bellinger b 
14 January, 1854; (living 1905). 

(452) Geneva Osborne Bellinger b 14 November, 

1887; (living 1905) unm 

(453) Kenneth Bickford Bellinger b 6 June, 1893; 
(living 1905) 
Hnifred Boot} 
(living 1905) 



(living 1905) 
(454) Winifred Booth Bellinger b 7 January, 1895; 
nivine- iQOt;l 



lOOT 



-^oDavid W. Perkins m (i), in 1846, Jane H. Fitch, of Sheldon, Vt., by whom 
he had six children: Walter P. Perkins of Chicago; Dr. James S. Perkins. Mrs 
Charles Skinner, and Miss Fannie Perkins of Milwaukee; Joseph Perkins ot 
Chicago; and a daughter who died in her youth. (The Wisconsin of 18 August, 
1884.) 



Fifth Generation. 123 



212. Emma Lena OsborneS b 15 December, 1866; (living 

1905) ; m 28 September, 1892, William Boothe b 18 
January, 1865; (living 1905). 

(455) Benjamin Osborne Boothe b 11 September, 

1895; (living 1905) 

(456) Theodore Halsey Boothe b 11 May, 1897; d 24 

July, 1905 

(457) Robert Lloyd Boothe b i May, 1902; (living 

1905) 

213. Arthur Moffat AllenS b New York City, 11 February, 

1842; (living 1909 New York City); m Philadelphia, 
Penn., 4 November, 1876, Leonora Louisa Fox (dau. of 
Richard Fox and Sarah Guilbert) b Greensboro, N. C, 
13 September, 1846; (living 1909 New York City). 

(458) Richard Fox Allen b New York City, 17 August, 

1877; (living 1909) unm, 

(459) John Trevette Allen b New York City, 11 De- 

cember, 1880; (living 1909) unm 

(460) Arthur Gilbert Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y.. 28 

May, 1885; (living 1909) unm 

214. Charles Doughty Allen5 b Brooklyn, N. Y., 27 May, 
1844; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 2 April, 1907; w Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 21 June, 1876, Mary Bennett (son of Daniel 
Bennett and Mary Silsbee) b Cincinnati, Ohio, 27 No- 
vember, 1848; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.). 

(461) Anna Elisabeth Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 11 

July, 1877; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.) 
unm 

(462) Charles Doughty Allen 

(463) Daniel Vincent Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 De- 

cember, 1886; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.) 

unm 

(464) Mary Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 13 August, 

1888; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 May, 1905. 



124 Fifth Generation. 



217. John Little Moffat AllenS b New York City, 28 October, 

1850; (living 1909 New York City); m New York 
City, 27 October, 1894, Helen Louise Fox (dau. of 
Richard Fox and Sarah Guilbert) b Wilmington, N. C, 
5 July, 1854; (living 1909 New York City). S. P. 

218. Jessie Curtis^ b New York City, 6 September, 1842 ; d 

New York City, 6 March, 1907; m New York City, 21 
October, 1880, Charles Horatio Boddcr Shepherd b 
Baltimore, Md., 6 February, 1846; (living 1907 New 
York City). O. S. P. 

219. Gram Curtis^ b New York City, 2 May, 1844 ; (living 1909 

Newcastle, Penn.) ; m Ithaca, N. Y., 4 June, 1879, 
Martha Bartlct Shack ford (dau. of Charles C. Shack- 
ford and Martha Gould Bartlet) b Lynn, Mass., 31 
January, 1855; (living 1909 Newcastle, Penn.). 

(465) Laura Curtis b Brooklyn, N. Y., 4 June, 1880; 

d 4 June, 1880 

(466) Chauncey Shack ford Curtis b Scranton, Penn., 

21 November, 1881 ; (living 1909) iinm 

(467) Harold Bartlct Curtis b Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 

May, 1884; (living 1909) nnm 

(468) Margaret Curtis b Newcastle, Penn., 14 May, 

1886; (living 1909) unm 

(469) Dorothy Curtis b Pittsburgh, Penn., 12 January, 

1892 ; (living 1909) 

220. Frank Curtis^ b New York City, 12 May, 1846; (living 

1909 New York City) ; m (i) New York City, 6 Octo- 
ber, 1874, Lucy Frances Jezvett (dau. of John Light 
Jewett and Mary Dillingham) b New York City, 
22 March, 1848; d Brooklyn, N. Y., 19 August, 1876; 
^ m (2) New York City, 3 June, 1880, Louise Asten (dau. 
of Thomas B. Asten and Elizabeth Smith) b New 
York City, 2 August, 1854; (living 1909 New York 
City) 

(470) Harry Moffat Curtis b New York City, 26 

March, 1881 ; (living 1909) unm 



Fifth Generation. ^^S 



(471) Blicahcth Curtis b New York City, 8 May, 1883 ; 

(living 1909) iDun 

(472) Adeline Margaret Curtis b New York City, 15 

July, 1885; (living 1909) tmm 

(473) Frank Louis Curtis b New York City. 13 Jan- 

uary, 1888; (living 1909) 

221. Ernest CurtisS h New York City, i October, 1848; d 

Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 November, 1904; m Binghamton, 
N. Y.,' 10 November, 1881, Ella Bloomer (dau. of 
Elijah' F. Bloomer) b 15 March, 1854; d Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 29 February, 1904. O. S. P. 

222. John Little Moffat, M. D.5 b Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 June, 

1853; (living 1909 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; '" Bath Beach, 
N. Y., 18 April, 1893, Elisabeth Mary Rhodes (dau. of 
George Murray Rhodes and Mary Ann Foote) b Anti- 
o-ua W. I., 6 Februarv, 1868; (living 1909 Brooklyn, 

N. Y.). 

(474) John Little Moffat b Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 Jan- 

uary, 1894; (living 1909) 

(475) Helen Moffat b Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 September, 

1895; (living 1909) 

(476) Reuben Curtis Moffat b Brooklyn, N. Y., 24 

April, 1897; (living 1909) 

223. George Barclay Moffat^ b Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 September, 
1854; (living 1909 New York City) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 
10 October,^888. Frances Hillard White (dau. of Wil- 
liam Augustus White and Harriet Hillard) b Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 10 August, 1869; (living 1909 New York City). 

(477) Alexander White Moffat b Brooklyn, N. Y., 

26 June, 189 1 ; (living 1909) 

(478) Donald Moffat b Beedes, Essex Co., N. Y., 18 

Julv, 1894; (living 1909) 

(479) George Barclay Moffat b Rye, N. Y., 16 May, 

1897; (living 1909) 



126 Fifth Generation. 



(480) Frances White Moffat b New York City, 21 

November, 1899; (living 1909) 

(481) Gordon Moffat b New York City, 7 March, 

1905 ; d New York City, 5 April, 1906. 

224. Edgar Victor Moffat, M. D.5 b Brooklyn, N. Y., 20 June, 

1856; (living 1909 Orange, N. J.) ; m Brookline, Mass., 

I June, 1887, Editli Wellington (dau. of Avery Well- 
ington and Martha Lawrence Kidder) b Boston, Mass., 

II May, 1858; (living 1909 Orange, N. J.). 

(482) Harold Wellington Moffat b Brooklyn, N. Y., 

26 November, 1888; (living 1909) 

(483) Barclay Wellington Moffat b Orange, N. J., 9 

July, 1890; (living 1909) 

(484) Virginia Moffat b Orange, N. J., 8 July, 1892; 

(living 1909) 

(485) Ethel Moffat b Orange, N. J., 21 April, 1894; 

(living 1909) 

(486) Constance Moffat b Orange, N. J., 23 Novem- 

ber, 1898; (living 1909) 

225. Ada Moffat5 b Brooklyn, N. Y., 21 March, 1858; (living 

1909 Germantown, Penn.) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 
November, 1885, John McLean Lachlan (son of John 
Mast Lachlan and Isabella Howe Stewart) b Melbourne. 
Australia, 31 May, 1861 ; (living 1909 Germantown, 
Penn.). S. P. 

227. R. Burnham MoffatS b Brooklyn, N. Y., 7 January, 1861 ; 

(living 1909 New York City) ; m Brooklyn. N. Y.. 5 

June, 189s, Bllen Lozv Pierrepont (dau. of Henry Evelyn 

Pierrepont and Ellen A. Low) b Brooklyn, N. Y., 15 

April, 1872; (living 1909 New York City). 

(487) Jay Pierrepont Moffat b Rye, N. Y., 18 July, 

1896; (living 1909) 

(488) Elisabeth Barclay Moffat b Rye, N. Y., 26 June, 

1898; (living 1909) 

(489) Abbot Low Moffat b New York City. 12 May, 

1901 ; (living 1909) 



Fifth Generation. 127 



230. Jane Eliza SaffinS b Philadelphia, Pa., 28 November, 

1844; d Philadelphia, Pa., 5 August, 1877; m Philadel- 
phia, Pa., I May, 1866, John Steen Elliott b 26 Decem- 
ber, 1845; (living 1906 Philadelphia, Pa.). 

(490) Julia Steen Elliott 

231. Cora Moffat5 b New York City, 17 March, 1855; (living 

1906 New York City) ; w 11 November, 1886, George 
Washington Bramzuell b 24 August, 1852; (living 1906 
New York City). 

(491) George Moffat Bramzvell b New York City, 10 

October, 1887; (living 1908). 

(492) William Moffat Bramzvcll b New York City, 27 

June, 1890; (living 1908). 

233. Sophia Moffat QuackenbosS b 25 September, 1843 ; d 19 

January, 1870; m 3 January, 1865, Samuel Watkins 
Eager b 19 January, 1830; (living 1905 Middletown, 
N. Y.). 

(493) Carrie L. Eager b 14 October, 1865 ; c? 10 April, 

1887 unm 

(494) Samuel Watkins Eager 

(495) Mary Brinckerhoff Eager 

(496) Ida Sophia Eager 

234. John Minthorne Quackenbos^ b 12 September, 1853; 

(living 1906 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m 16 September, 1874, 
Hannah Luquer b 16 November, 1856; (living 1906 
Brooklyn, N. Y.). 

(497) Anna Quackenbos b 24 October, 1875 ; d 27 Jan- 

uary, 1899 unm 

(498) Ida Quackenbos 

(499) Minthorne Luquer Quackenbos b 12 February, 

1882; d 13 April, 1902 

243. Marion Cornelia SchappsS b 16 June, 1854; (living 1907 
New York City) ; m 17 October. 1877; Henry Stewart 
Turrill, M. D.' (U. S. A.) b 8 September, 1842; d 24 
April, 1907. 



128 Fifth Generation. 



(500) Marion Cornelia Turrill b 17 May, 1879; (liv- 

ing 1907 New York City) unni 

(501) Margaret Stewart Turrill b 5 April, 1883; (liv- 

ing 1907 New York City) unm .^ 

244. John Carpenter Schapps, M. D.5 b 21 July, 1856; (living 

1907 Butte, Montana) ; m 12 June, 1894, Helena B. 
Riley b Morristown, N. J., 20 January, 1867; (living 
1907 Butte, Montana). 

(502) Hester Houghton Schapps b 12 July, 1895 ; d 27 

November, 1897. 

(503) John Carpenter Schapps b ly April, 1901 ; (liv- 

ing 1907) 

245. Helen Rosalie Stewart Schapps^ b 22 January, i860; 

(living 1907 Duxbury, Mass.) ; m 17 October, 1889, 
Lieut. Magnus Olin Hollis (U. S. A.) & 3 November, 
1858; d Manila, Phillipine Islands, 15 November, 1899; 
bur. Newnan, Ga. 

(504) Dorothy Stewart Hollis b 30 July, 1890; (living 

1907) 

(505) Mary Winifred Hollis b 20 November, 1894; 

(living 1907) 

249. Alexander Ramsey Thompsons b 29 March, 1854; (liv- 

ing 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; w 4 June, 1890, Dora Sfeb- 
bins (widow of John J. Heliker) b Booneville, Nev., 4 
May, 1856; (living 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.). S. P. 

250. Margaret Carpenter Thompson^ b 29 January, 1856; 

(living 1907 Summit, N. J.) ; m 16 January, 1878, 
George Henry Hodenpyl b 10 March, 1851 ; (living 1907 
Summit, N. J.). 

(506) Mary Thompson Gysberti Hodenpyl b 16 Octo- 

ber, 1878; (living 1907) iinm 

(507) Elizabeth Gysberti Hodenpyl b 20 January, 

1882; (living 1907) unm 

(508) George Henry Gysberti Hodenpyl b 20 Novem- 

ber, 1888; (living 1907). 



Fifth Generation. 129 



251. Wiliiam Robert Thompsons b 12 January, 1858; (living 
1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m 21 February, 1893, Hattie 
Maud Boynton b Brooklyn, N. Y., 23 August, 1864; 
(living 1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.) 

(509) Alexander Ramsey Thompson b 20 November, 

1894; (living 1907) 

255. Louisa Carpenter^ b 21 August, 1848;'°' d Newport, 
Oregon, 21 August, 1886; m San Francisco, Cal., 21 
July, 1875, /«'«^-y Laidlazu b Fisherton, Ayrshire, Scot- 
land, 23 January. 1847; (living 1909 Portland, Oregon). 

(510) James Brnest Laidlatv 

(511) Hugh Alexander Laidlaiv 



259. Roswell H. Carpenters jy 27 November, 1858; (living 
1907 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; tn 29 January, 1902, Emma 
Maurer b 12 March, 1882; (living 1907 Brooklyn, 

N. Y.). 

(512) Gladys Louise Carpenter b 15 March, 1903; 

(living 1907) 

266. Margaret Lovenia Scott^ b Summer Hill, Cayuga Co., 
N. Y., 6 January, 1871 ; (living 1906); m Cortland, 
N. Y., 15 February, 1897. Everett M. Hornbeck b Slater- 
ville Springs, N. Y., 4 February, 1870; (living 1906). 

(513) Herbert Lezvis Hernbcek b Slaterville Springs, 

N. Y.. 18 February, 1898; (living 1906) 

(514) Philip Scott Hornbeck b Slaterville Springs, 

N. Y., 14 December, 1903; (living 1906) 

(515) Chauncey Livingston Hornbeck b Cortland, 

N. Y., 16 February. 1906; (living 1906) 

270. Virginia Lewis ScottS b Cortland, N. Y., 12 August, 
1883 ; (living 1906 Cayuga, N. Y.) ; m Cortland, N. Y., 
6 September, 1905, Jesse Dalton Foster b Aurelius, 
Cayuga Co., N. Y., 23 June, 1883 ; (living 1906 Cayuga, 
N. Y.). 

(516) Justine Eugene Foster b Cortland, N. Y., 31 

July, 1906; (living 1906) 

'MRecords of the Canal Street (New York City) Presbyterian Church. 



130 Fifth Generation. 



275. Harry Moffat BirdS b 28 June, 1877; (living 1904) ; m 
12 August, 1904, Bstella Putnam b 4 November, 1881 ; 
(living 1904). S. P. 

285. Nelson Alonzo HallS b St. Clair, Mich., 17 December, 
1874; (living 1906 Sault Ste Marie, Mich.); m Sault 
Ste Marie, Mich., 6 June, 1904, Maud Stinson b Toronto, 
Ontario, 23 February, 1877; (living 1906 Sault Ste 
Marie, Mich.) unm 

287. William Addison Van DorenS jy Washington, D. C, 7 

January, 1870; (living 1906) ; m 17 March, 1891, Mary 
Catherine Sadler b Washington, D. C, 18 August, 
1872; (living 1906). 

(517) William Theodore Van Doren b Washington, 

D. C, 27 December, 1891 ; (living 1906) 

(518) John Addison Van Doren b Washington, D. C, 

22 December, 1894; (living 1906) 

(519) Frances Sadler Van Doren b Cherrydale, Va., 

6 May, 1899; (living 1906) 

(520) William Addison Van Doren b Cherrydale, Va., 

23 September, 1901 ; (living 1906) 

288. Carrie Aletta Van Doren5 b Washington, D. C, 13 

August, 1871 ; d 4 January, 1901 ; m 14 June, 1899, 
Albert Grace Moffat [No. 294 below] b 7 November, 
1878; (living 1907 Washington, D. C). O. S. P. 

289. Charles Lansing Van DorenS ^ Washington, D. C, 6 

May, 1873; (living 1906); m 24 November, 1897, 
Lurana A. Cole b Oswego, N. Y., 28 May, 1869 ; (living 
1906). 

(521) Lurana Cole Van Doren b Washington, D. C 

II August, 1900; (living 1906) 

(522) Nettie May Van Doren b La Mesa, Cal., 27 

December, 1903; (living 1906) 



Fifth Generation. 131 



291. Herbert John Moffat^'o^ ^ 24 June, 1872; (living 1906 

Hyattsville, Md.) ; m Washington, D. C, 27 July, 1893, 
Annie Vickers Spicer b Greenwood, Del.. 19 September, 
1872; (living 1906 Hyattsville, Md.). 

(523) John Leslie Moffatt b Bladensburg, Md., 21 De- 

cember, 1895; d 7 July, 1897. 

(524) Ruth Hazel Moffatt b Bladensburg, :Md., 22 Sep- 

tember, 1897; (living 1906). 

(525) Annie Spicer Moffatt b Hyattsville, Md., 16 

May, 1901 ; (living 1906). 

(526) Helen Grace Moffatt b Hyattsville, Md., 9 No- 

vember, 1903; (living 1906). 

292. William Addison Moffat^ b Washington, D. C, 29 

August, 1874; (living 1906 Hanover, Md.) ; m Hyatts- 
ville, Md., 5 December, 1894, Laura Catherine Sakcrs b 
Howard County, Md., 3 May, 1865; (living 1906 Han- 
over, Md.). 

(527) Pearl Bstelle Moffat b Hyattsville, Md., 20 

March, 1897; (living 1906) 

(528) Lottie Madeline Moffat b Hyattsville, Md., 29 

August, 1898; (living 1906) 

(529) Williani Alexander Moffat b Anne Arundel 

County, Md., 8 May, 1904; (living 1906). 

294. Albert Grace Moffat^ b Washington. D. C, 7 Novem- 
ber. 1878; (living 1909 Washington, D. C.) ; ni (i) 14 
June, 1899, Carrie Aletta Van Doren [No. 288 above] 
b Washington, D. C, 13 August, 1871 ; d 4 Januar}^ 
1901 ; m (2) 17 December, 1903, Maggie Virginia Rea 
b Fairfax County, Va., 21 March, 1881 ; (living 1909 
Washington, D. C). 

(530) William Ray Moffat b Fairfax County, Va., 23 

September, 1904; d 20 August, 1906 

(531) Albert Addison Moffat b Washington, D. C, 

10 August, 1907; (living 1909) 

(532) Edzvin Lezuis Moffat b Washington. D. C. 27 

October. 1908; d 12 January. 1909. 



'""Herbert John Moffat has assumed a double "t" in spelling his name. 



132 Fifth Cicneration. 



295. Daisy Bertha Moffat^ b Washington, D. C, 30 October, 

1880; (living 1906 Washington, D. C.) ; w Washington, 
D. C, 29 March, 1902, Joseph Thomas Skinner b Lees- 
burg, Va., 16 June, 1868; (living 1906 Washington, 
D. C). S. P. 

296. Susie May Moffat^ b Washington, D. C, 29 January, 

1883; (living 1907 Hyattsville, Md.) ; m Hyattsville, 
Md., 17 February, 1904, Albert Anderson b Whitfield, 
Md., 3 July, 1881 ; (living 1907 Hyattsville, Md.). 
(533) Viola Janie Anderson b Hyattsville, Md., 3 Feb- 
ruary. 1905; d 13 July, 1905. 

(534) Albert Francis Anderson b Hyattsville, Md., 5 

September, 1907; (living 1907) 

297. Arthur Louis Moffat^ b Washington, D. C, 11 March, 

1885; (living 1907 Philadelphia, Penn.) ; m Hyatts- 
ville, Md., 10 March, 1904, Charlotte Grace Niles b 
Arlington Heights, Va., 26 March, 1884; (living 1907 
Philadelphia, Penn.). 

(535) Rolland Niles Moffat b Philadelphia, Penn., 20 

September, 1907; (living 1907). 

308. Mary Kate PiersonS b Hamptonburg, Orange County, 
N. Y., I January, 1850; (living 1907) ; m (i) 10 May, 
1871, Wickham Tryon Shaiv^°3 b 24 March, 1841 ; (liv- 
ing 1907 Middletown, N. Y.) ; m (2) 29 November, 
1887, Thomas Brewster Tnthill b 23 December, 1844; 
(living 1907). S. P. 

310. George Murray Pierson^ b Hamptonburg, Orange 
County, N. Y., 11 February, 1861 ; (living 1907 Camp- 
bell Hall, N. Y.) ; w 12 December, 1899 ; Bnima Willard 
Tufhill b Town of Goshen, N. Y. ; (living 1907 Camp- 
bell Hall, N. Y.). S. P. 



"^At the May, 1875, Term of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania, 
a decree of divorce on the ground of desertion was granted to Wickham Tryon 
Shaw, and in 1880 he married a Miss Mapes with whom he has lived happily and 
by whom he has had issue now living. 



Fifth Generation. 133 



311. Margaret Anna Pierson^ b Hamptonburg, Orange 
County, N. Y., 27 November, 1865; (living 1907); m 
10 February, 1887, George Gonge Woodhull b 28 Octo- 
ber, 1864; d Bainbridge, Georgia, 24 October, 1901. 

(536) Nathaniel DuBois Woodhull b 25 January, 1888 ; 

(living 1907) 

313. Susan PiersonS b 2;^ September, 1866; (living 1906); m 

Hamptonburg, N. Y., 26 September, 1888, Charles B. 
Hoivell b Jersey City, N. J., 17 September, 1855; (living 
1906). 

(537) George Gonge Howell b 9 January, 1890; (liv- 

ing 1906). 

(538) Anna Craft Howell b 20 May, 1891 ; d 14 Jan- 

uary, 1896. 

(539) Riissell Bull Hozvcll b 4 April, 1893; (living 

1906). 

(540) Bertha Hoivell b 12 December, 1895; (living 

1906). 

(541) Charles Baird Howell b 16 November, 1897; 

(living 1906). 

(542) Elisabeth Pierson Howell b 6 October, 1900; 

(living 1906). 

(543) Pierson Hoivell b 19 May, 1903; (living 1906) 

(544) John Archer Howell b 24 June, 1905; (living 

1906). 

314. Lucile Pierson^ b 20 July, 1871 ; (living 1906) ; m Hamp- 

tonburg, N. Y., 15 February, 1899, Harry Bull b Stony 
Ford, N. Y., 25 May, 1872; (living 1906). 

(545) Kettirah J. Bull b 19 February, 1900; (living 

1906) 

(546) Henry Pierson Bull b 26 July, 1901 ; (living 

1906) 

322. Grace OtisS b 23 September, 1873; (living 1907 Passaic, 
N. J.) ; m 12 May, 1897, Andrew B. Hutchison (son of 
George Hutchison and Christina) b Stonehouse, Lanark- 



Inn 



134 Fifth Generation. 



shire, Scotland, 17 March, 1869; (hving 1907 Passaic, 
N. J.). 

(547) Galen Otis Hutchison b 27 June, 1898; (living 

1907). 

323. Sophia P. OtisS b 15 December, 1862; (living 1907 

Florida, Orange County, N. Y.) ; 7n 18 June, 1884, 
George Shaw Vail b Florida, N. Y., 22 October, i860; 
(living 1907 Florida, N. Y.). 

(548) Helen Vail b 21 May, 1885; d 2 December, 

1888 

(549) Elisabeth D. Vail b 26 March, 1889; (living 

1907) 

(550) Otis Vail b 25 July, 1893; (living 1907) 

(551) George Shaw Vail b 7 March, 1902; (living 

1907). 

324. John B. Otis5 b 19 March, 1864; (living 1907 Craigville, 

Orange County, N. Y.) ; m 6 May, 1885, Eugenia H ad- 
den b Craigville, N. Y., 23 February, 1862; (living 1907 
Craigville, N. Y.). 

(552) Jennie Otis b 30 December, 1886; (living 1907) 

(553) Jc^-se L. Otis b 16 September, 1888; (living 

1907) 

(554) Elsie Otis b 26 November, 1898; (living 1907) 

(555) Mo<^ Otis b 10 February, 1901 ; (living 1907) 

326. Wilmot Otis5 b 6 May, 1869; (living 1907 Goshen, 

Orange County, N. Y.) ; m 21 November, 1906, Edith 
Leake b Jersey City, N. J., 19 July, 1869; (living 1907 
Goshen, N. Y.'). S. P. 

327. Lona OtisS b 21 January, 1872; (living 1907 Blooming- 

burgh, Sullivan County, N. Y.) ; m 24 December, 190T, 
Hamlet S. Roe b Bloomingburgh, N. Y.. 7 November, 
187 1 ; (living 1907 Bloomingburgh, N. Y.). 

(556) Wilmot Otis Roe b 3 November, 1902; (living 

1907) 

(557) Mark W. Roe b 28 June, 1904; (living 1907) 

(558) Margaret L. Roe b 28 February, 1906; (living 

1907) 



Fifth Generation. 135 



331. Daisy OtisS b 18 May, 1884; (living 1907 Monroe, Orange 

County, N. Y.) ; m 14 February, 1907, Alexander Neely 
Smith b Monroe, N. Y., 18 July, 1885 ; (living 1907 
Monroe, N. Y.). S. P. 

332. Silas Gilbert Pierson^ b 30 May, 1866; (living 1907 Ot- 

tumwa, Iowa) ; m at Ottumwa. Iowa, 29 September, 
1897, Grace S. Tisdale b 3 July, 1871 ; (living 1907 Ot- 
tumwa, Iowa). 

(559) Silas Gilbert Pierson b 24 July, 1899; d 12 

August, 1899. 

(560) Orrin Tisdale Pierson b 3 May, 1902; (living 

1907). 

(561) John Halsey Pierson b 2 March. 1906; (living 

1907) 

335. Helen Qarthwaite Pierson^ b 19 July, 1872; (living 
1907) ; m Otisville, Orange County, N. Y., 29 Decem- 
ber, 1898, Ebenezer Bull, Jr., b 3 October, 1869; (liv- 
ing 1907). 

(562) William Bull b 30 December, 1899; (living 

1907) 

(563) Elisabeth Greene Bull b 26 August, 1901 ; (liv- 

ing 1907). 

(564) Phoebe Bull b 24 x\ugust, 1904; (living 1907) 

(565) Jolm Pierson Bull b 20 October, 1906; (living 

1907). 

342. Florence Widdifield^ b 23 January, i860; (living 1906) ; 

m J March. 1884. John L. Eraser b 15 April, 1853; (liv- 
ing 1906). 

(566) Marie Eraser 

343. Benjamin Howe Gilbert^ b Georgetown, Conn., 18 April, 

1863 ; (living 1906 London, Ontario) ; m Georgetown, 
Conn., 3 October. 1886, Sarah Louise Renozud b Nor- 
walk. Conn., 18 June. 1868; (living 1906). 

(567) Grace Renozvd Gilbert b Danbury, Conn., 6 

August, 1887; (living 1906) 



136 Kifth Generation. 



(568) Charlotte Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 10 Feb- 

ruary, 1891 ; (living 1906) 

(569) Edzvin Gilbert Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 24 

April, 1892; (living 1906) 

(570) Ruth Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 24 October, 

1893 ; (living 1906) 

(571) Naomi Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 11 March, 

1895 ; (living 1906). 

(572) George Cooper Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn.. 4 

August, 1897; (living 1906) 

(573) Russell Lowe Gilbert b Georgetown, Conn., 

24 September, 1898; (living 1906) 

344. George Cooper Gilbert^ b Georgetown, Conn., 28 August, 
1865; (living 1906 Dorchester, Mass.) ; m South Salem, 
N. Y., 29 August, 1886, Mariette Cole b 12 June, 
1870; (living 1906). 

(574) William James Gilbert b 12 October, 1887; 

(living 1906). 

(575) Harriet Huldah Gilbert b 26 January, 1890; 

(living 1906). 

346. Elizabeth J. Gilbert^ b Georgetown, Conn., 3 July, 1870; 
(living 1906 Utica, N. Y.) ; m Utica, N. Y., 7 June, 
1893, Walter C. Townsend b 27 February, 1863; (living 
1906). 

(576) Hester Beach Townsend b 4 May, 1894; d 5 

June, 1895. 

(577) Evelyn Hozve Townsend b 4 February, 1897; 

(living 1906) 

(578) John Gilbert Townsend b 11 July, 1898; (living 

1906). 

348. Clara WhitmoreS b 20 February, i860; d 29 September. 
1896; m 19 October, 1881, Frederick Grolry b 31 Jan- 
uary, 1857; (living 1906). O. S. P. 



Fifth Generation. i37 



350. Albert H. WhitmoreS b 25 December. 1864; (living 1906 
Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 2 June, 1886, 
Josephine G. Guilino b 16 December. 1866; (living 
1906). 

(579) Josephine Guilino Whitmore b 26 May, 1887; d 

II November, 1895 

(580) William Bones Whitmore b 19 August, 1889; 

(living 1906) 

(581) Bezalecl Hozve Whitmore b 3 March. 1891 ; 

(living 1906) 

(582) Rose Naomi Whitmore b 11 November, 1892; 

(living 1906) 

(583) Iva Harpster Whitmore b 20 October, 1894; 

(living 1906). 

(584) Dorothy Delapier Whitmore b 23 December, 

1896; (living 1906). 

(585) vS. Albert Whitmore b 30 September, 1899; (liv- 

ing 1906) 

(586) Edzvard Guilino Whitmore b 5 October, 1901 ; 

(living 1906) 

(587) Alice Harriet Whitmore b 21 June, 1903; (liv- 

ing 1906) 

356. Ethel J. Howe5 b i December, 1872: d 18 June. 1896; m 
8 April, 1896, John B. Ellis b 22 February, 1869; (living 
1906 New York City). O. S. P. 

367. Francis Howe MunroeS b 11 April, 1862; (living 1906) ; 
m Newark, N. J., 17 January, 1894, Mary Russell Ellis 
b New York City, 31 July, 1865; (living 1906). 

(588) Russell Mitnroe b 2 August, 1896; d 13 August, 

1896. 

(589) John Ellis Mnnroe b 23 August, 1900; (living 

1906). 

(590) George Mnnroe b 24 July, 1902; d 24 July. 

1902. 



138 Fifth Generation. 



368. Harry Keiser Munroe^ b 6 October, 1865 ; (living 1906 

Newark, N. J.) ; m Montclair, N. J., 26 December, 
1890, Helen Elisabeth Batchelder b Jersey City, N. J., 
25 March, 1870; (living 1906). 

(591) Bmilie Frances Munroe b Ocean Grove, N. J., 

14 September, 1896. 

(592) Harold Hozve Munroe b State College, Centre 

Co., Penn., 28 December, 1897; (living 1906). 

369. Milbourne Munroe^ b 18 July, 1867; (living 1906); m 

East Orange, N. J., 27 June, 1906, Laura A. Leadbelter 
b Stevens Point, Wis., 26 March, 1880; (living 1906). 
S. P. 

370. George Rowland Munroe^ b 24 July, 1869; (living 1906 

Newark, N. J.) ; m 10 October, 1900, Flora A. Teeter 
b Newark, N. J., 28 February, 1878; (living 1906). 
S. P. 

375. Ethel Hovve5 b 29 January, 1870; (living 1906); m 22 
March, 1905, Ernest Lagarde b Richmond, Va., 28 No- 
vember, 1863; (living 1906). 
(593) Howe Roe Lagarde b 19 December, 1905; (liv- 
ing 1906). 

377. Morgan Roe Howe^ b 23 December, 1873; (living 1906) ; 
m Englewood, N. J., 2 November, 1905, Elisabeth Irene 
Fellowes b New York City, 18 June, 1879; (living 
1906). S. P. 

382. Edith HoweS b 10 March, 1878; (living 1906) ; m 12 Oc- 
tober, 1900, Irving De Forest Kip b 20 February, 1873 ; 
(living 1906). 
(594) Elisabeth Kip h 15 May, 1904; (living 1906). 

386. Emeline CarlisleS b 27 April, 1877; (living 1906) ; m 7 
November, 1902, William Hurd Hill b 7 November, 
1866; (living 1906). S. P. 



Fifth Generation. 139 



392. Caroline Augusta Fuller^ b 27 January, 1853; (living 
1906) ; m New York City, 2y February, 1878, Bradford 
Rhodes b Beaver County, Penn., 25 February, 1849; 
(living 1906). S. P. 



393. Kate Helena Fuller^ b 3 October, 1854; (living 1906 Far 
Hills, N. J.) ; m Mamaroneck, N. Y., 10 November, 
1886, Zachariah Belcher b 7 November, 1850; (living 
1906). 

(595) Malcolm Belcher b Newark, N. J., 26 Septem- 

ber, 1887; (living 1906) 

(596) Zachariah Belcher b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 6 

August, 1889; (living 1906) 

(597) Mary Watts Belcher b Newark, N. J., 24 April, 

1891 ; (living 1906) 

(598) Harold Stezmrt Belcher b Newark, N. J., 6 Oc- 

tober, 1893; (living 1906). 

395. Mary S. FullerS b 23 July, i860; (living 1906 New York 
City); m (i) Mamaroneck, N. Y., 15 June, 1882, 
Everett Rushmore b 2y August, 1856; d Mamaroneck, 
N. Y., I November, 1893; m (2) 5 September, 1900, 
Charles Bell White, M. D.b 4 May, 1857 ; (living 1906). 

(599) Louise Rushmore b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 30 

January, 1885 ; (living 1906) umn 

(600) Jane Augusta Rushmore b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 

4 July, 1887; (living 1906) unm 

(601) Everett Rushmore b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 14 

April, 1889; (living 1906) 

(602) Samuel M. Rushmore b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 17 

August, 1890; (living 1906) 

(603) Ralph Rushmore b Mamaroneck, N. Y., 13 July, 

1893; (living 1906). 

396. Mary Wakona CummingsS b 14 May, 1866 ; m New York 
City, 15 April, 1884, Edwin Clement Ray b 19 June, 
1858; (living 1906). 



I40 Sixth Generation. 



(604) Clement Ray b New York City, 27 December, 

1885; (living 1906) 

(605) James Fuller Ray b New York City, 21 April, 

1887; (living 1906) 

397. Florence Augusta Cummings^ b 15 July, 1872; (living 
1906 South Orange, N. J.) ; m 22 April, 1896, Charles 
Spier Dodd b 23 January, 1864; (living 1906). ■ 

(606) Norman Dodd b 29 June, 1899; (living 1906). 



398. Sarah Miller FentonS b 28 August, 1858; (living 1905 

Emporium, Penn.) ; m 16 March, 1885, George Franklin 
Balcom b 5 June, 1849; (living 1905). 

(607) Max Fenton Balcom b 20 January, 1888; (liv- 

ing 1905) 

(608) George Franklin Balcom b 8 November, 1892; 

(living 1905) 

399. Edward M. FentonS b 7 September, i860; (living 1905 

Red Rock, Iowa) ; m 31 October, 1894, Lottie M. Oakcs 
b 12 March, 1867; (living 1905). 

(609) Gerald Ray Fenton b 24 August, 1896; (liv- 

1905) 

400. John M. FentonS b 3 August, 1867; (living 1905 Em- 

porium, Penn.) ; ni 2 August, 1903, Lena Shane b 19 
April, 1882; (living 1905). 

(610) Margaret Adeline Fenton b i June, 1904; (liv- 

ing 1905). 

402. Susan Dell Miller^ b 22 August, 1867; d 23 January, 
1899 ; m 27 January, 1893, Frank W. Montgomery b 
20 June, 1858; (living 1905 Elwood, Neb.). 

(611) Philip Henry Montgomery b 12 May, 1895; 

(living 1905). 

(612) Susan Aletta Montgomery b 17 January, 1899; 

(living 1905) 



Sixth Generation. 141 



403. Edward Miller Roberts^ b 15 September. 1872; (living 
1907 Elmira, N. Y.) ; m 28 April, 1898, Clara 0. Hanlon 
b 2 October, 1877; (living 1907). S. P. 

405. Mary Houston Woglom Smith^ b Brooklyn, N. Y., 12 
December, 1853; d Hempstead, N. Y., 27 September, 
1874; m Hempstead, N. Y., 17 December, 1873, William 
Henry Steele Smith b Hempstead, N. Y., 7 February, 
1850; (living 1908 Hempstead, N. Y.). 

(613) Mary Elisabeth Smith 

407. Lillie Hulst SmithS b Brooklyn, N. Y., 16 December. 

1868; (living 1908 Westfield, N. J.) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 
15 October, 1884, Alfred H. Meyer b Jeffersonville, 
N. Y., 30 April, i860; (living 1908). 

(614) Elbert Hniry Meyer b Brooklyn, N. Y., 17 

June, 1886; (living 1908) unm 

(615) Gladys Ehpcth Meyer b Brooklyn. N. Y., 15 

October, 1889; (living 1908) nmn 

(616) Lloyd Elhzvorth Meyer b Brooklyn. N. Y., i 

September, 1893 ; (living 1908) 

(617) Nathalie Matson Meyer b Brooklyn. N. Y., i 

January. 1896; (living 1908) 

(618) Hozuard Droste Meyer b Brooklyn. N. Y., 26 

February, 1901 ; (living 1908). 

410. Frank Burgher6 b 23 July, 1867 ; (living 1907 Jersey City, 

N. J.) ; m Jersey City, N. J., 19 April, 1893. Emily 
Frances Campbell b Brooklyn, N. Y., 24 August, 1870; 
(living 1907). S. P. 

411. Margaret Houston Burgher^ b 2 September, 1869; (liv- 

ing 1907 North Hackensack. N. J.) ; m Jersey City, 
N. J., 8 June, 1897, Charles Ephraim ScoReld b Jersey 
City, N. J., 23 December, 1865; (living 1907). 

(619) Adeline Burgher ScoHeld b 3 May, 1898 , d 29 

June, 1 90 1. 

(620) Charles Ephraim ScoHeld b 21 February. 1900: 

(living 1907). 



142 Sixth Generation. 



(621) Helen Adeline ScoHeld b i June, 1901 ; (living 

1907). 

(622) Margaret Mabel ScoHeld b i May, 1903 ; (living 

1907). 

(623) John William ScoUeld b 5 July, 1905 ; (living 

1907). 

414. Frank Houston BurgherS b Brooklyn, N. Y., 22 July, 
1871 ; (living 1908 New York City) ; m New York 
City, 6 December, 1904, Bessie Lathrop Kennedy b 
Savannah, Ga., 14 July, 1877; d New York City, 17 
January, 1906. S. P. 

416. Eleanor Atwood BurgherS b Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 Octo- 

ber, 1877; (living 1908 Newark, N. J.) ; m New York 
City, 30 May, 1901, Henry W. Landau, b Jeflfersonville, 
N. Y., 13 June, 1877; (living 1908). 

(624) Frances Margaret Landau b ly February, 1903; 

(living 1908). . 

417. Harry Clay HoustonS b 23 January, 1874; (living 1908 

Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 8 August, 1892, 
Virginia Louise Mitthauer b Brooklyn, N. Y., 31 May, 
1874; (living 1908). S. P. 

418. George Baker HoustonS b 28 March, 1875; (living 1908 

Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m Brooklyn, N. Y., 6 February, 1907, 
Margaret Juliet Mendler b Brooklyn. N. Y., 25 Jan- 
uary, 1882; (living 1908). S. P. 

440. Florence Lucinda LowellS & g May, 1876; (living 1905) ; 
m 30 April, 1903, William P. Whyland b 6 August, 
1870; (living 1905). S. P. 

446. Helen Louise HeitkampS b 29 June, 1879; (living 1905) ; 
m 10 March, 1904, William B. Crapp b 3 April. 1878; 
(living 1905). S. P. 



Sixth Generation. 143 



462. Charles Doughty Allen^ h New York City, 27 February, 
1879; (living 1908 Brooklyn, N. Y.) ; m Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 20 September. 1904, Margaret Virginia Lusch 
(dau. of Charles F. Lusch and Eva Dix) h Brooklyn, 
N. Y., 17 November, 1880; (living 1908). 
(625) Virginia Silshee Allen b Brooklyn, N. Y., 3 Oc- 
tober, 1905; (living 1908) 



490. Julia Steen Elliott^ b Philadelphia. Penn., 21 June, 1867; 
(living 1906 Washington, D. C.) ; m 5 September, 1888, 
Charles Edivard Byrne b Alexandria, Va., 27 May, 1864 ; 
(living 1906). S. P. 



494. Samuel Watkins Eager^^ 13 December, 1866; (living 

1906 Montgomery, N. Y) ; m 18 October, 1899, Anna 
May Bgbertson b 26 April, 1874; (living 1906). 

(626) Samuel Watkins Eager b 19 August, 1900; (liv- 

ing 1906). 

(627) Williani Roosa Eager b 17 September, 1902; 

(living 1906). 

495. Mary Brinckerhoff Eager^ b 19 June, 1868; (living 

1906 Conneaut, Ohio) ; m 21 October, 1891, Frederick 
T. Roosa b i November, 1868; (living 1906). S. P. 



496. Ida Sophia Eager^ b 13 November, 1869; (living 1906 
Wallkill, N. Y.) ; m 21 October, 1891, Byron S. Gallo- 
way & 31 January, 1870; (living 1906). 

(628) Margaret Gallozvay b 19 August, 1893; (living 

1906) 

(629) Albert Roe Galloivay b 28 January, 1898; (liv- 

ing 1906) 

(630) Marion Adaline Galloway b 2 January, 1903 ; 

d 19 January, 1903 

(631) Ezra Gallozvay b 16 December, 1903; (living 

1906). 



144 Seventh Generation. 



498. Ida QuackenbosS b 4 March, 1877; d Montclair, N. J., 24 
December, 1907 ; m 23 December, 1902, Rulif V. N. De- 
Nyse b 25 November, 1880; (living 1907). 

(632) Helen Liiqiicr DeNyse b 16 February, 1904; 

(living 1906). 

510. James Ernest Laidlaw^ b 31 March, 1878; (living 1909 

Portland, Oregon) ; m 29 April, 1903, Ruth Scott b 
Shanghae, China, 28 October, 1882; (living 1907). 

(633) James Scott Laidlaw b Portland, Oregon, 13 

February, 1904; (living 1909) 

(634) Alan Huxley Laidlazv b Portland, Oregon, 22 

September, 1908; (living 1909) 

511. Hugh Alexander LaidlawS b 20 March, 1880; (living 

1909 Portland, Oregon) ; m 14 May, 1903, Nora Jane 
Calavan b Sprague, Washington, 7 February, 1881 ; 
(living 1907). 

(635) Jane Laidlazv b Nome, Alaska, 12 December, 

1907; (living 1909) 

566. Marie FrazerS b 10 September, 1885 ; (living 1906 Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.) ; ni 17 September, 1904, Robert McKcnney 
O'Neil b 30 October, 1880; (living 1906). S. P. 

612. Mary Elizabeth Smith^ b Hempstead, N. Y., 26 Septem- 
ber, 1874; (living 1908 Hempstead, N. Y.) ; m Hemp- 
stead, N. Y., 2 September, 1896, Charles Gardiner 
Miller b Brooklyn, N. Y.. 6 September, 1874; (living 

1908). 

(636) Rietta Miller b Hempstead, N. Y., 27 Novem- 

ber, 1902; (living 1908). 



INDEX. 



Allen, Anna Elizabeth 123 

Arthur Gilbert 123 

Arthur Moffat 102, 123 

Bessie Trevette 102 

Charles Doughtyi02, 123, 143 

Gushing 102 

Daniel Vincent 123 

John 102 

John Little Moffat.. 102, 124 

John Trevette 123 

Mary 123 

Mary Gushing 102 

Mary Moffat 42, 49 

Richard Fox 123 

Virginia Silsbee 143 

Alexander, Samuel Davies.. 41 

Alvord, Louise 105 

Anderson, Albert 132 

Albert Francis 132 

Viola Janie 132 

Andre, Major John 73 

Andrews, Julia 113 

Annan, Rev. Robert 31, 32 

Robert L 42 

William 42 

Arnot, 21 

Asten, Louise 124 

Thomas B 124 

Baker, 75 

Balcom, George Franklin.... 140 

Max Fenton 140 

Barber, Joseph 42 

Louisa Anna 115 

Paris 115 

Barclay, David 46 

Elizabeth Virginia.... 102 

George Brinley 102 

Barker, 75 

Barkley, James 20, 25 

John 25 



Margaret 25 

Mary 20, 25 

Samuel 25 

Thomas 25 

William 25 

Barnard, Susan 81, 98 

Barnet, Mary 99 

Bartlet, Martha Gould 124- 

Batchelder, Helen Elizabeth. 138 

Beach, Rev 80 

Beatty, John J 108 

Belcher, Gov 36 

Harold Stewart 139 

Malcolm I39 

Mary Watts 139 

Zachariath 139 

Belknap, Stephen 42 

Bellinger, Arlington A 122 

Geneva Osborne 122 

Kenneth Bickford. . . . 122 

Olive R 122 

Winifred Booth 122 

Bennet, Nancy A 78, 93 

Phineas 93 

Bennett, Daniel 123 

Edward 118 

Esther 102 

Mary 123 

Bertholf, Elizabeth Wickham. in 

Mary E m 

Beyea, Susan 95 

Bird, AHta 107 

Carey Hanchett 107 

Charles E 107 

Harry Moffat 107, 130 

Hazel Laura 107 

Helen 107 

John Moffat 107 

Blair, Rev. John 29, 31, 32 

Blakeley, Sarah 94 



145 



146 



Index of Names. 



Blakesley, Laura Maria 93 

Blois, Emma Eliza 115 

Bloomer, Elijah F 125 

Ella 125 

Booth, Benjamin Osborne... 123 

Robert Lloyd 123 

Theodore Halsey 123 

William 123 

Bostwick, Currence 61 

Boyd, James 42 

Samuel 42 

Boynton, Hattie Maud 129 

Bramwell, George Moffat.... 127 

George Washington.. 127 

William Mofifat 127 

Brewster, Hannah 61 

Brinckerhoff , Isaac 91 

Rachel Maria 91 

Brinley, Edward 74 

Brittan, EH^^abeth 112 

Brodhead, John Heiner 105 

Louisa 105 

Brown, Alvah A 117 

Harriet 100 

John 33. 40 

Joshua 71 

Bruyn, Jacobus 51, 53 

Bull, Ebenezer Jr 135 

Elizabeth 110 

Elizabeth Greene 135 

Harry 133 

Henry Pierson 133 

John 70 

John Pierson 135 

Keturah J 133 

Phoebe 135 

Rachel 71 

William 69, 135 

Burgher, Charles Atwood..ii8, 119 

Eleanor Atwood. . . .119, 142 

Frank 119, 141 

Frank Houston 119, 142 

Harry Johnson 119 

John Atwood 119 

Mabel 119 



Mary Ii8 

Mary Houston. . 119, 141 

Burke, Sir Bernard 17 

Burnet, James 58 

Robert 42 

William 33, 40, 42 

Burns, Affia 95 

Elizabeth 19, 24 

John 19, 24 

Burr, Rev. Aaron 34, 35, 36, 39 

Byrne, Charles Edward 143 

Calavan, Nora Jane 144 

Callan. Susan Frances 109 

Campbell, Emily Frances.... 141 

Canfield, Caleb Augustus.... 115 

Margaret Ida 115 

Carlisle, Anna 116 

Davil 116 

Emeline 116, 138 

John 116 

John Howe 116 

Marion 1 16 

Carpenter, A. B 68, 69, 86 

Abigail 69, 86 

Alexander Thompson. 105 

Anthony 68, 69, 86 

Augustus Brodhead.. 105 

Elizabeth 69 

Ernest lOS 

George 68, 86 

Gladys Louise 129 

Helen Smith 92 

Helena 69 

Hugh Smith. .83, 84, 92, 105 

Jane Stewart 92, 104 

John. . 68, 76, TJ, 86, 92, 105 

Louisa 105, 129 

Margaret 105 

Mary 69, 92, 104 

Mary Moffat 68 

Rima Stewart 92, 105 

Roswell H 105, 129 

Sarah 61 

Chambers, Elizabeth 98 

John 47 



Index of Names. 



147 



Chandler, Hannah 6i 

Abigail 6j 

Charles II, of England 22 

Clarke, George S lOS 

Gillette Alvord 105 

Clemence, Daniel 60 

John 61 

Clinton, Alexander 42 

Charles 26, 42, 47, SI 

DeWitt 42, 43, 63 

George 42, 58, 73 

James 42. 43. 63 

Mary (or Polly).. 42, 43. 63 

Colby, Ebenezer 61 

Cole, Lurana A 130 

Mariette 136 

Cook, Salome B 96 

Corwin, Daniel 96 

Martha 96 

Crapp, William E 142 

Crawford, David 49 

Cross, Harry Moffat 121 

Henry Austin 121 

Cummings, Charles P Ii7 

Florence Augusta. . .117. 140 

Mary Wakona 117, I39 

Curtis, Abner 89 

Adeline Margaret 125 

Chauncey Shackford.. 124 

Dorothy 124 

Elizabeth 125 

Ernest 102. 125 

Flora 107 

Frank 102, 124 

Frank Louis 125 

Gram 102. 124 

Hannah 75, 76 

Harold Bartlet 124 

Harry Mofifat 124 

Jessie 102, 124 

Joseph T 82, 102 

Julia 75, 89 

Laura 124 

Margaret 124 

Reuben 76 

Thomas 102 



Cuthbertson, Rev. John 31 

Cutter, Eleanor Louisa 61 

Davison, David 42 

De Lancy, James 70 

de Moffat, Nicholas i7 

Denning, William 4^ 

Denniston, .Mexander 5i 

David 42 

George 42, 5i 

James 49, 5i 

John 51, 60 

Nathaniel 62 

William Si 

Denton, Joseph 59 

Michael ^i 

DeNyse, Helen Luquer I44 

Jane 92 

Rulif, V. N 144 

DeWitt, Rev. John 38 

Leah 42 

Simeon 63 

Dickinson, Rev. Jonathan 34, 35, 36, 
39. 

Rev. James Milligan. 28 

Dillingham, Mary 124 

Dix, Eva ^43 

Dodd, Charles Spier 140 

Norman ^40 

Dodge, Algernon Sidney 112 

Allie C 1^2 

Alsop W ^^2 

Gilbert Pierson 112 

Dolson, Martha S i" 

Theophilus m 

Doremus, Mary 94 

Douglas, Dr TJ 

Dowding, Rebekah 50 

Dubois, Isaac 42 

Nathaniel 42 

Matthew 58 

Zachariah 7i 

Dupignac, Adelaide Morse.. 97- ii4 

Almira 97> "4 

Alonzo 97 

Bezaleel Howe 97- "3 



148 



Index of Names. 



Catherine Ann... 

Dora 

Edwin Augustus. 

Elizabeth 

Emma 



97 
97 
• 98 
97 
97 

Eugene P ii3 

Fannie 97 

Franklin Augustus.... 97 
George Washington. . 97 

Henry Clay 97 

John 97 

Josephine 9? 

Margaretta Howe 97 

Richard Corwin Pier- 
son 97 

Sarah 97 

Theodore 97 

Eager, Carrie L 127 

Ida Sophia 127, 143 

Mary Brinckerhoff.127, 143 

Samuel Watkins 127, 143 

Sophia M 83 

William Roosa 143 

Edes, Marcia M 94 

Egbertson, Anna May 143 

Elliott, John Steen 127 

Julia Steen. 127, 143 

Ellis, John E 137 

Mary Russell 137 

Ellison, William (>^ 

Eno, Jane 115 

Evans, Elizabeth G no 

Farragut, Admiral 90 

Fellowes, Elizabeth Irene.... 138 

Fenton, Amos 117 

Amos Case 117 

Edward M 117, 140 

Gerald Ray 140 

John M 117. 140 

Margaret Adeline.... 140 

Sarah Miller 117, 140 

Ferrell, Cornelius 94 

Maria 108 

Rachel A 94, 108 

Fitch, Jane H 122 

Fitzgerald, Frances 47, 50, 85 



Fleetwood, Florence Nightin- 
gale 119 

William E II9 

Fleishell, Francis 108 

Fleming, George 59 

Foote, Mary Ann 125 

Foshay, Andrew lOi 

Lucinda loi 

Foster, Jesse Dalton 129 

Justine Eugene 129 

Fox, Helen Louise 124 

Leonora Louisa 123 

Richard 123, 124 

Frank, Jacob 99 

Jane Cordelia 99 

Frazer, John L ^35 

Marie I35, I44 

Fuller, Caroline Augusta 117, I39 

James M ii7 

James Malco'm 117 

Kate Helena 117, I39 

Mary S ii7, I39 

Fulton, James 62 

Qalation, David 48, 52, 53 

Hannah 48, 50, 52, 53 

John 48, 52, 53 

Gale, Clarissa 79, 96 

Galletly, 3i 

Galloway, Albert Roe I43 

Byron S I43 

Ezra 143 

Margaret I43 

Marion Adaline I43 

Gaston, Margaret 20, 24 

Gerard, Annie McLean 100 

Robert 1 100 

Gerow, Gilbert 7i 

Gilbert, Benjamin Howe 112, 135 

Charlotte 136 

Edwin Gilbert 136 

Elizabeth J 113, 136 

George Cooper 112, 136 

Grace Renowd I35 

Harriet Huldah 136 

Hester Ann 113 

Naomi 136 



Index of Names. 



149 



Russell Lowe 136 

Ruth 136 

William Higgins. . . . 113, 136 

William James 112, 136 

Gillson, John 44 

Gram, Hans B 82 

Graves, Aline Adelaide 121 

Robert 121 

Green, Charles H 92 

Frances Moffat gi 

Gregg, Anne 19, 20, 24, 60 

Hugh 19 

Gregory, Betty 96 

Grolry, Frederick 136 

Guilbert, Sarah 123 

Guilino, Josephine 137 

Guion, John 72, 88 

Gurney, Mary A 1 16 

Madden, Eugenia 134 

Hall, Elon J 108 

Fred Moffat 108 

Nelson Alonzo 108, 130 

Halliday, David 62 

Halsey, Elizabeth Y iii 

Sophia 62 

Halsted, Byron David 116 

Claire 116 

David 116 

Edwin Howe 116 

Ella Howe 116 

Hamilton, Alexander -jt^ 

Hanlon, Clara O 141 

Harlow, Hannah Elizabeth iii 

John B 71 

John Vail 112 

Harper, Maria 116 

Sarah Adelaide 100 

Thomas Baron 100 

Hathaway, Cecilia 1 1 1 

Hawkins, Emma Fein 121 

Fay Eugenia 121 

Florence Anna 121 

Joseph Daniel 121 

Richard Cole 120 

Vera Smith 121 

Heard, John J 71 



Phineas 71 

Heitkamp, Aline 122 

Charles P 122 

Ernest Louis 122 

Helen Louise 122. 142 

Heliker, John J 128 

Helm, Deborah 61 

Phineas 60 

Hetfield, Moses 59 

Higgins, Hester Ann 96 

Michael 96 

Hill, William Hurd 138 

Hillard, Harriet 125 

Hislop, John i iq 

Hobart, Bishop 80 

Hodenpyl, Elizabeth Gysberti 128 

George Henry 128 

George Henry Gys- 
berti 128 

Mary Thompson Gys- 
berti 128 

Hodge, Isaac 60 

Hoffman, Ogden 63 

Hoge, John 35, 42 

Holbrook, Almira D 114 

Anna Maria 114 

Arthur Huyser 114 

Florence Louise 114 

Frank Howard 114 

George Henry 114 

Wellington B 1 14 

William Henry 114 

Hollis, Dorothy Stewart 128 

Magnus Olin 128 

Mary Winifred 128 

Holmes, Ebenezer 47 

Hopkins, Reuben 59 

Hornbeck, Chauncey Living- 
ston 129 

Everett M 129 

Herbert Lewis 129 

Philip Scott 129 

Horton, Abigail 65. 86 

Barnabas 65 

Houston. Adeline Miller. .. roo. 118 

George Baker 119. 142 



150 



Index of Names. 



Harry 99 

Harry Clay 119, 142 

Henry 100 

Jane Harriet 100, 1 19 

Joseph 28 

Julia Ruth 100, 1 18 

Margaret 100 

Maria Howard 100, 118 

Samuel 100, 119 

How, Anna 88 

Howard, Chorley 100 

Earl 100 

Edwin Charles 120 

Eliza 89 i 

Emma Marie 100 

Ernest Rowe 120 

Fay 100, 120 

Florence Nightingale. 119 

George Fleming 89 

Gerard 100, 119 

Harriet May 100 

Harry Gerard 120 

Innocence 100 

John 89 

Leigh 100, 120 

Lulu 100, 120 

Maud May 120 

Myrtle Annie 120 

Pinkie Ernestine 120 

Sarah Harriet Ade- 
laide Harper 120 

Sidney 120 

Thomas 88, 89 

Thomas Hodgkinson.89, 100 

William McKinley 120 

Howe, Alma 115 

Bertha 115, 138 

Bezaleel 72, T^^ 88, 99 

Catherine 88, 98 

Catherine Moffat 42, ()Z 

Charles Mortimer. . .98, iiS 

Edith 115, 138 

Edwin Jenkins 98, IIS 

Eliza 88 

Ella Louise 98, 116 

Emeline Jenkins 98, 116 



Ethel 115, 138 

Ethel J 113, 137 

Frances Ramadge. . .98, 114 

George B 96, 113 

George C 88, 96 

George Rowland 98, 115 

Grace nS 

Harriet Augusta 96, 112 

Herbert Barber 115 

Jacob Frank. 41, T2, 99, 117 

John Canfield 115 

John Moffat, 25, -jz, 79, 80, 
81, 88, 98. 

John Morgan 98, 115 

Josephine E 96, 113 

Julia Ann 88 

Margaretta 88, 97 

Mary C 96, 112 

Mary Mason 98 

Morgan Roe 115, 138 

Mortimer B 113 

Oscar 88 

Ruth Eno 115 

Susan Eleanora 98, 116 

Walter B 113 

Howell, Anna Craft 133 

Benjamin 62 

Bertha I33 

Charles B 133 

Elizabeth Pierson.... 133 

George Gonge 133 

John Archer 133 

Pierson 133 

Russell Bull 133 

Theophilus 59 

Hughes, John Moffat 106 

Thomas 106 

Thomas Moffat 106 

Hulse, Anna 96 

Hunter, James 53 

Hutchison, Andrew B 133 

Christina 133 

Galen Otis 134 

George I33 

Hyde, Catherine 99 

Daniel Kellogg 99 



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Index of Names. 



151 



I ngraham, Ella Moffat 79 

Julius Granger 107 

Margaret Moffat 107 

Isbell, Charles Bela 117 

Lavinia 117 

Jackson, General T] 

Jaction, Michael 51, 53 

Jenkins, Barzillai 81, 98 

Elizabeth Barnard.... 81 

Emeline Barnard 98 

Jeroloman, Florence 106 

John 106 

Jewett, John Light 124 

Lucy Frances 124 

Johnson, John 44 

Johnston, Mrs 74 

Keiser, Matilda 114 

Kennedy, Bessie Lathrop 142 

Thomas 33, 40 

Kidd, Alexander 53 

Kidder, Martha Lawrence.... 126 

Kirk, Rosina 109 

Kip, Elizabeth 138 

Irving DeForest 138 

Kiimmel, August Henry loi 

Emma Curtis lOi 

Mary Halsey loi, 122 

Lachlan, John Mast 126 

John McLean 126 

Lagarde, Ernest 138 

Howe Roe 138 

Laidlaw, Alan Huxley 144 

Hugh Alexander. . ..129, 144 

James 129 

James Ernest 129, 144 

James Scott I44 

Jane I44 

Landau, Frances Margaret... 142 

Henry W 142 

Lasher, Col. John 66 

Leadbelter, Laura A 138 

Leake, Edith 134 

Leitch, Catherine Williams. .. 99 

Daniel Kellogg 99, 117 

David Hyde 99 

George 88 



George Fleming 88, 99 

Laura Kellogg 99 

Lawrence 99 

Levice, Marie 120 

Lewis, Sarah 21 

Little, Ann 50 

Archibald 71 

Elizabeth 50, 51 

Ellinor 50 

Frances 50, 51 

George 48 

Harriet 48, 50 

Rev. John. 47, 48. 49. 50, 51, 
52, S3, 85. 

Margaret 20, 25, 50, 85 

Maria 50 

Simon 48, 50 

Lourie, Alexander 44 

Low, Ellen A 126 

Lowell, Alice Child 121 

Florence Lucinda. . .121, 142 

Thomas Woolson 121 

Lowry, Joanna L 106 

Luquer, Hannah 127 

Lusch, Charles F 143 

Margaret Virginia.... 143 

Lyell, Rev. Thomas 75. 80 

MacMillan, Arthur 107 

Arthur Samuel 107 

Carrie Mabel 108 

May Ruth 108 

Maffet, George West 21 

Mapes, Miss 132 

Mason, Mary 81, 98 

Thomas 81. 98 

Maurer, Emma 129 

Maxim, Ansel Bartlet 116 

Mary Howe 116 

Thomas 116 

McCarthy, Charles 75 

McCIaghrey, Col 59 

McCuIly, Martha 21, 22 

McGarrah, Ellinor 50, 52 

John 52 

McMillan, Rev. John 30 

Mechem, Mary 116 



152 



Index of Names. 



Mendler, Margaret Juliet 142 

Merritt, Hannah 88 

Meyer, Alfred H 141 

Elbert Henry 141 

Gladys Elspeth 141 

Howard Droste 141 

Lloyd Ellsworth 141 

Nathalie Matson 141 

Miller, Adaline 88 

Adeline 99. n? 

Caroline M 94 

Charles 88 

Charles Gardiner 144 

Harriet 99. 118 

Henry Clay 99. 118 

Mills, Jacob 88 

Miller, John Moffat. 88, 99 

Margaret 88 

Margaret Sarah 88 

Mary Elizabeth 88, 99 

Philip 88 

Philip Grant 99. "8 

Rietta I44 

Mills, Ruth 88 

Miller, Susan Dell 118, 140 

Wickham 88 

Mitchell, Julia Augusta 103 

Robert 103 

Mitthauer, Virginia Louise.. 142 

Moffat, Abbot Low 126 

Abigail 62, 86, 91, 92 

Ada 103. 126 

Addison Robert 87, 94 

Adeline Margaret. 82, 90, 102 

Albert Addison 131 

Albert Grace 109, 130, 131 

Alexander White 125 

Algernon Sydney 94, 109 

Anne 61 

Anthony Yelverton. 73, 74, 75 
85, 89, 90, lOI. 

Arthur Louis 109, 132 

Barclay Wellington... 126 

Bertha E 109 

Caeserine Roma 121 

Caroline 91 



Caroline Halsey loi, 121 

Carrie Isabella 94, 108 

Carrie May 93, 107 

Catherine 44, 60, 61, ^2, 85 88 

Catherine Howe ^2, 

Charlotte Amelia 91 

Constance 126 

Cora 103, 127 

Daisy Bertha 109, 132 

Daniel J 87, 94, 109 

David Halliday 61 

David Wilson 62 

Donald 125 

Edith Grace 109 

Edgar Victor 102, 126 

Edwin Curtis 89, loi, 121, 

Edwin Lewis 131 

Eleanor 62 

Elinor 60, 61 

• Elizabeth 44, 60, 61, 72, 85, 
86, 87, 92. 
Elizabeth Barclay.... 126 

Ellen Elizabeth 93, 107 

Elsie Wells 109 

Ethel 126 

Eugene 90 

Euphemia Maria 89, loi 

Euphemia Shatzel 101 

Florence Maria 94, 108 

Frances 44, 69, 72, 84, 86 87, 
92. 

Frances Denton co 

Frances White 126 

Francis 62 

Frederick 90 

George 62 

George Barclay 102, 125 

George Fleming 90 

Gordon 126 

Grace M 109 

Harold Wellington... 126 

Llarriet Louisa 93, 107 

Helen 125 

Helena 121 

Henry Youngs 86 

Herbert John 109, 131 






Index of Names. 



153 



Hezekiah 61 

Howard Allen c,o 

Howard Fenwick 90 

Isaac 24, 60, 62 

Isabella Frances 90 

Isabella S 87, 94 

James C 16 

Jane 60, 62 

Jay Pierrepont 124 

Rev. John 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 
28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 39, 
40, 41, 42, 43, 50, 51, 53, 
54, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 
69, 72, 85. 
John 21, 23, 24, 60, 62, 83, 86, 
91, 92. 

John Chandler 61 

John Little 25, 27, 44, 49, 51, 
54, 58, 59, 63, 65, 69, 73, 
75, 76, 85, 90, 102, 125. 

John Shaw 78, 87, 93 

John Viele 91 

Joseph 6r 

Julia Ann 86, 90 

Julia Curtis 8g, loi, 122 

Juliette Elizabeth 90 

Lillian 103 

Lily 109 

Lottie Madeline 131 

Louisa Estelle 109 

Mabel 103 

Margaret 19, 21, 23, 24, 25, 
44, 49, so, 52, 53, 60, 62, 64, 
65, 66, 67, 85, 86, 88. 
Margaret Lovenia. . . . 87, 93 

Maria 83, 85, 88, 91 

Maria Isabella 94, 108 

Mary 21, 24, 25, 44, 60, 62, 68, 
69, 85. 86. 

Mary Curtis loi, 121 

Mary Emma 89, lOi 

Mary Isabella 93, 106 

Mary Jane 87, 95 

Mary Silence 90, 102 

Mary Yelverton 63 

Myra 103 



Nathan 62 

Nathaniel 61, 62 

Paul Chester 109 

Pearl Estelle 131 

Phebe 62, 85, 88 

Raymond E 109 

R. Burnham 20, 103, 126 

Reuben Curtis. 76, 82, 90, 102, 

125. 

Rhoda 65, 86 

Robert Graves 121 

Robert John 89 

Robert Maxwell 19 

Rolland Niles 132 

Ruth 19, 24 

Samuel 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 

25, 44, 54. 58, 59, 60. 61, 65, 

66, 8s, 86, 94. 

Samuel Alonzo 87, 94 

Sarah Frances 94, 108 

Sophia Youngs 91, 103 

Stephen 62 

Susanna 61 

Susie May 109, 132 

Thomas 20, 21, 24, 58, 60, 61 

Thomas Howard 90 

Thomas Morris 91 

Virginia 126 

William 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 

24, 25, 44, 54, s8, 60, 61, 62, 

63. 83, 86, 92. 
William Addison. .. .109, 131 
William Alexander... 131 
William Brinckerhoff 65, 83, 

91. 103. 

William Herbert 94, 109 

William Ray 131 

William S 62 

William Shaw.... 78, 87, 93 

Willie Partridge 103 

Moffatt, Annie Spicer 131 

Helen Grace 131 

John Leslie 131 

Ruth Hazel 131 

T. Clenience 19, 24, 60 

Monmouth, Earl of 22 



154 



Index of Names. 



Montgomery, Frank W 140 

Gen'l Richard 14 

Philip Henry 140 

Susan Aletta 140 

Moore, Martha 62 

Robert 62 

Morgan, Ann W 81, 98 

Elizabeth Chambers.. 81 

Emma J 106 

John 81, 98 

Mary W 98 

Munroe, Clinton 114 

Emilie Frances 138 

Francis Howe 114. I37 

George i37 

George Rowland 114. 138 

Harold Howe 138 

Harry Keiser 114, 138 

John Andrew ii4 

John Ellis 137 

John Herbert II4 

Jonathan II4 

Milbourne 114. 138 

Percy ii4 

Russell 137 

Nicholson, John 60 

Nicoll, Abimael 42 

John 42, 50, SI 

Niles, Charlotte Grace 132 

Oakes, Lottie M 140 

O'Neil, Robert McKenney... I44 

James H ii7 

Osborn, Mary 89 

Osborne, August Kummel..i02, 122 

Emma Lena 102, 123 

Eugene Clinton 122 

George Shephard. . .102, 122 

Julia Margarett 102 

Levi loi 

Margaret loi 

Marion 122 

Norman Bellinger 122 

White loi 

Otis, Bertha Louise no 

Charles H 96 

Charlie m 



Clara C m 

Daisy m, I35 

Elizabeth 96. m 

Elizabeth Pierson 79 

Elsie 134 

Estelle Ill 

Frederick Pierson.... in 

Galen 96, m 

Grace m, i33 

Henry C 96 

Isaac 79. 96 

Jennie I34 

Jessie L I34 

John 79 

John B Ill, 134 

Josephine Hathaway.. in 

Josiah 96, III 

Lona ni, 134 

Mae 134 

Mary E ni 

Pierson Moffat 96, no 

Sophia P in, 134 

William 79, 9^ 

William Pierson no 

Wilmot in, 134 

Patterson, Euphemia 74, 89 

Janet 74- 75 

Peck, Ruth 62 

Pemberton, Rev. Ebenezer... 39 

Perkins, David W 122 

Fannie 122 

James S 122 

Joseph 122 

Walter P 122 

Zebulon W 122 

Pierce, President 9i 

Pierrepont, Ellen Low 126 

Henry Evelyn 126 

Pierson, Corlinda Bartlett... 112 
Cornelius Watkins — 95 

Elizabeth 79, 87, 96 

Frances Moffat.69, 70, 71, 96 

Frank Halsey 112 

George 43, 69, 95, no 

George Murray no. 132 

Harriet 95 



Index of Names. 



155 



Harriet Newell 96, 112 

Helen Garthwaite...ii2, 135 

Henry 87, 95, IIO 

Jane Bull no 

John ....35, 39, 95, 96, m 

John Halsey 135 

John Moffat 87, 112 

Josiah 69, 71, "72, 87 

Lucile no, 133 

Margaret Anna no, 133 

Margaret Mary Anne. 87 

Martha 95 

Mary 87, 95 

Mary Kate no, 132 

Orrin Tisdale 135 

Rachel 71 

Richard Wright 87, 96 

Salome Cook 112 

Sarah 71 

Sarah Jane 95 

Sarah Jennie no 

Silas 69, 70, 71, 87, 95 

Silas Gilbert, 87, 96, n2, 135 

Susan no, 133 

Susan Corwin 112 

William 69, 71, 87 

William H 96 

William Henry 95, no 

Pinckard, Josephine 119 

Poland, Elvira L 118 

Poppino, Mary 62 

Putnam, Estella 130 

Quackenbos, Anna 127 

Charles Youngs 103 

Ida 127, 144 

Ida Louisa 103 

John Minthorne 83, 103, 127 

Juliana Maria 103 

Mangel Minthorne 103 

Minthorne Luquer. . . . 127 

Sophia 91 

Sophia M 83 

Sophia Moffat 103, 127 

Ray, Clement 140 

Edwin Clement 139 

James Fuller 140 



Rea, Maggie Virginia 131 

Reed, Bethiah 61 

Robert L 109 

Reeve, Daniel 71 

Reilly, Abigail Moffat 91 

John Thompson 91 

Joseph Christopher.... 91 

Julia E. A 91, 103 

William Moffat 91 

Renowd, Sarah Louise 135 

Rhodes, Bradford 139 

Elizabeth Mary 125 

George Murray 125 

Riley, Helena B 128 

Roberts, Addison P 118 

Edward Miller 118, 141 

James 49 

Rockwell, James D loi 

Roe, David 115 

Emma 115 

Hamlet S 134 

Margaret L 134 

Mark W 134 

Wilmot Otis 134 

Rogers, Nathaniel 69 

Roosa, Catherine 72, 87 

Cornelius 72, 87 

Elizabeth Moffat 42, 72 

Frederick 143 

Ross, Louisa 105 

Rowland, John 38 

Rushmore, Everett 139 

Jane Augusta 139 

Louise 139 

Ralph 139 

Samuel M 139 

Ruttenber, E. M 13, 27, 28, 67, 

Sadler, Catherine 130 

Saffin, Jane Eliza 103, 127 

William 103 

Sakers, Laura Catherine 131 

Sanders, Almon 106 

Schapps, Cornelius Hanford.. 104 

Elizabeth Louise 104 

Helen Rosalie 104, 128 

Hester Houghton 128 



^56 



Index of Names. 



Jane Anne Smith 104 

John Carpenter 104, 128 

Margaret Carpenter... 104 

Marion Corneha. . . . 104, 127 

Mary Thompson 104 

Rima Stewart 104 

Scofield, Adehne Burgher.... 141 

Charles Ephraim 141 

Helen Adeline 142 

John William 142 

Margaret Mabel 142 

Scott, Addison Moffat 93, 106 

Adelbert Chauncey... .93, 107 

Chauncey L 93 

Clara Isabella 107 

Cora Belle 106 

Daniel John 93 

Edith Mary 106 

Elizabeth 62 

Eugene H 93, 106 

Harold Curtis 107 

James Chauncey 106 

Gen"l John Morin .... 66 

Katharine Ann 93, 106 

Katie Romelia 106 

Margaret Lovenia. . 106, 129 

Maria Lowery 106 

Mary 01 

Nanc}^ 62 

Phineas Bennet 93 

Ruth 144 

Virginia Lewis 106, 129 

William Addison 107 

Sears, Sallie 112 

Seybolt, David 95 

Shackford, Charles C 124 

Martha Bartlet 124 

Shane, Lena 140 

Sharpe, William Farrington. . 99 

Shatzel, Anna Matilda. . .74, 75. loi 

John loi 

John W lOi 

William loi 

Shaw, Abigail 102 

Ann 65, 86 

Mary 95 



Robert 66 

Robert Tenant 65 

Wickham Tryon 132 

Shelp, Sarah Van Wagoner. . . 115 
Shepherd, Charles Horatio 

Bodder 124 

Silsbee, Mary 123 

Simonson, Hannah 62 

Simmons, Henry P 115 

vSarah Louise 115 

Skinner, Mrs. Charles 122 

Joseph Thomas 132 

Smith, .Alexander Neeley.... 135 

Caleb Lawson 118 

Charles 42 

Claudius 71 

Elbert Porter 118 

Elizabeth 124 

Henry Houston 118 

Hugh 'j'j, 92 

Jane DeNyse "jy 

Lillie Hulst 118, 141 

Margaret TJ, 92 

Mary Elizabeth 141, 144 

Mary Houston Woglom 118, 
141. 

Sarah Jane 99 

Susanne 42 

William Henry Steele 141 

Snedecor, Nathaniel 62 

Snell, James P 20 

Spelman, Helena Wakona 98 

Jane Augusta 98, 117 

Mary Wakona 98, 117 

Phebe 98 

Phineas 98 

Samuel R 98 

Spicer, Annie Vickers 131 

Stebbins, Dora 128 

Stewart, Isabella Howe 126 

Stinson, Maud 130 

Stryker, Susan A 118 

Swan, Elizabeth Jane 119 

Sweetland, Bowen 93 

Matilda B 93 

Teeter, Flora A 138 



Index of Names. 



157 



Ten Broeck, General 58 

Tennent, Rev. Gilbert 38,40 

Rev. William 34, 38 

Thompson, Alexander Ram- 
sey 104, 128, 129 

Charles Johnson 104 

Hugh Carpenter 104 

Janette Nexson 104 

John go, 91 

John Carpenter 104 

Julia Moffat 91 

Margaret Carpenter 104, 128 

Alary Carpenter 104 

Mary Elizabeth no 

William Robert 104, 129 

Thurston, Benjamin 70 

TFsdale, Grace S 13S 

Todd, John 33. 40 

Townsend. 61 

Evelyn Howe 136 

Hester Beach 136 

John Gilbert 136 

Walter C 136 

William 42 

Trevette, Elizabeth 102 

Turner, Hugh 60 

Turrill, Henry Stewart 127 

Margaret Stewart 128 

Marion Cornelia 77. 128 

Tusten, Lt. Col 59 

Tuthill, Elizabeth 61 

Emma Willard 132 

Thomas Brewster 132 

Vail, Benjamin 59 

Elizabeth D 134 

George Shaw 134 

Helen 134 

Otis 134 

Van Buskjrk, George W 114 

VanCortlandt, Col. Philip. ... 66, 67 

VanDoren, Carrie Aletta 108, 130, 

131- 

Charles Lansing. .. .108, 130 

Emma May 108 

Frances Sadler 130 

John A 108 



John Addison 130 

Lurana Cole 130 

Nettie May 130 

William Addison. ...108, 130 

William Theodore. . . . 130 

Van Home, Maria 108 

Walker, Daniel 74 

Ward, Charles G 117 

Helena Meserole 117 

Washington, General 58, 73 

Wayne, Gen'l Anthony 67, 73 

Weaver, Ezra 94 

Maria 94 

Webb, David 61 

Webster, Rev. Richard 41 

Weller, Henry 112 

Henry L 112 

Wellington, Avery 126 

Edith 126 

Wesley, Charles 37 

Wharrey, John 53 

Wheeler, Alice Lewis 109 

White, Charles Bell 139 

Frances Hillard 125 

Sarah Elizabeth 112 

William Augustus 125 

Whitefield, Rev. George 37, 38 

Whitehead, William A 19 

Whitmore, Albert H 113, 137 

Alice Harriet 137 

Bezaleel Howe 137 

Clara 113, 136 

Dorothy Delapier.... 137 

Eber 113 

Edward Guilino 137 

Edward K 113 

Frederick B 113 

Iva Harpster 137 

Josephine Guilino 137 

Rose Naomi 137 

S. Albert 137 

William Bones 137 

Whittier, Eiias 92 

Eliza Moffat 91 

Whittlesey, Elcazcr 33, 40 

Whyland, William P 142 



158 



Index of Names. 



Widdifield, Charles 112 

Florence 112, 135 

William 112 

Wilkin, James 42 

Jesson 42 

William of Orange 30 

William III, of England 36 

Williamson, Joanna 94 

Wilson, Joseph M 41 

Wirling, Anne 75 

Robert 74, 75, 89 

Sarah Amanda Fims 74, 75, 
89. 

Withington, Sarah Hall 115 

Wood, John 59 

Woodhull, George Gonge 133 

Jesse 71 

Nathaniel DuBois 133 

Woodruff, Harriett Belden. ... 117 

Wright, Jacob 44, 59, 66, 67, 86 

Margaret Mofifat 66, 67 

Yelverton, Anthony 27, 85 

John 27 



Mary 27, 85 

Young, Arthur 95 

Arthur Willie 95 

Charles Addison 95 

Edith Lewis no 

Francis Arthur no 

Francis Moffat 95, 109 

Mary Edith 95, no 

Mary Moffat 41, 42, 47 

Youngs, Abimael 39 

Birdseye 71 

Eunice 65, 86 

Gideon 69 

Hannah 50 

Henry 65, 86 

Phoebe 27, 85 

Zebal, Anna 120 

Earl 120 

Ernest E 120 

Eugenia Ernestine 120 

Harold 120 

Thomas Howard 120 



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